floss-silk

English

Noun

floss-silk (countable and uncountable, plural floss-silks)

  1. Alternative form of floss silk.
    • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 132:
      Beside these samplers hung divers fruit-pieces worked in worsted and flower pieces worked in floss-silk; also two or three drawings.
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