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PREFERRED TERM
Organzine  
DEFINITION
  • n. It is, probably, a borrowing from the French "organsin". It is a type of strong thick yarn, made of single two or more threads twisted together, and the, twisted again but in the opposite direction of the twist of the individual poil yarns.
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
  • 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; 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
Organsin (fil)

French

Organzino (filo)

Italian

orsoio
Hilo de organzí

Spanish

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