• n. From the French "dent" meaning tooth. It refers to the space between the teeth or leaves through which the warp ends passe, in the reed of a loom.

• http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300247544 (Silk Heritage Thesaurus)

• 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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