PREFERRED TERM
Pongee
DEFINITION
- n. A borrowing from the Chinese "běnjī". It is a soft, usually unbleached kind of Chinese silk fabric, woven from uneven threads of raw silk in tabby.
BROADER CONCEPT
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund (eds). The Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford : Clarendon Press; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. [www.oed.com]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Pongé (tissu)
French
Pongée
Pongée
Italian
Pongis
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/541
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