PREFERRED TERM
Brilliantine
DEFINITION
- n. From the French brillanté. Basic, light and smooth weave from silk, used for linning or dress material mainly.
BROADER CONCEPT
RELATED CONCEPTS
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
- Miller, Leslie. Selling Silks. A Merchant´s Sample Book 1764; London: V & A Publishing, 2014; Stevenson, Angus, ed. Oxford Dictionary of English. 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2010; Tortora, Phyllis, y Ingrid Johnson. The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles, 2014
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Brillantine (tissu)
French
Brillantino
Italian
brillante di seta
Brillantina
Spanish
percalina
brillanté de seda
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/92
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