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PREFERRED TERM
Pongee  
DEFINITION
  • n. A borrowing from the Chinese "běnjī". It is a soft, usually unbleached kind of Chinese silk fabric, woven from uneven threads of raw silk in tabby.
BROADER CONCEPT
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
Pongé (tissu)

French

Pongée
Pongée

Italian

Pongis

Spanish

URI
http://data.silknow.org/vocabulary/541
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