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PREFERRED TERM
Duchesse  
DEFINITION
  • n. From the French "duchess". It refers to avery soft and heavy kind of satin. Highly lustrous, smooth silk or rayon fabric with a large number of ends per inch, made with an 8- to 12-end warp satin weave, and dyed in solid colours.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
  • duchess satin
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2015; 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
Satin duchesse (tissu)

French

raso duchessa

Italian

satin duquesse
Raso duquesa

Spanish

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