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PREFERRED TERM
Burat  
DEFINITION
  • n. Obsolete tabby light French dress goods, dyed in the piece. With a silk warp and thin wool weft. Among its uses are the mourning garments or ceremonial garb.
BROADER CONCEPT
NARROWER CONCEPTS
ENTRY TERMS
  • borato
  • buratee
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
Etamine (tissu)

French

Buratto

Italian

Burato

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/111
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