• n. Probably an adoption of some form of Old French "flosche". It refers to the fine short silk fibres or filaments or waste that could not be reeled.

• Waste silk

• Bourrette
• Hiladillo (object)
• Irish poplin
• Jusi
• Poplin
• Radames
• Silk cashmere
• Silk gaberdine
• Silk poplin
• Spun silk fabric
• thesaurus:555 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)
• wd:Q63852445 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• CIETA. Vocabulary of technical terms of fabrics (English, French, Italian, Spanish). Lyon: Centre  International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, 1964; Burnham, Dorothy. Warp and Weft. A Textile Terminology. Royal Ontario Museum, 1980; 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]

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