PREFERRED TERM
Tussor
DEFINITION
- n. A term from the Hindi and Urdu "tasar" and the Sanskrit "tasara". It denotes a coarse brown silk made in and imported from India.
BROADER CONCEPT
ENTRY TERMS
- tussah silk
- tussore
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
Tussah
French
Tasar
Tussar
Tùssor
Italian
Tusor
Spanish
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/636
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