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PREFERRED TERM
Floss (thread)  
DEFINITION
  • 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.
BROADER CONCEPT
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; 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]
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Filoselle (Fil)

French

Strusa

Italian

moresca
spelaia
spellaia
Filadiz

Spanish

filadís
esfiladiz
URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/216
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