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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(archaic) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon..
A dressing chemise of Tiffany which she had on over a blue lutestring
There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean the fat lady in the luteſtring trollopee. Betvveen you and I, ſhe is but a cutler's vvife. See hovv ſhe's dreſſed, as fine as hands and pins can make her […]
Lord, I have ſuch a deal to do, I ſhall ſcarce have time to ſlip on my Italian luteſting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a houſekeeper?
There are six hook-tips and 10 in the lutestring group, which was formerly treated as a separate family, Thyatiridae.
A quartet of moths in the subfamily Thyatirinae, known collectively as lutestrings – of which the spring-flying Frosted Green and Yellow Horned are also members.
Other lutestrings (3 spp., each in its own genus [n/i]), which do not have black spot on forewing and lack the black dash on wingtip.
These specimens have the "lutestrings" of or, and the "figure of 80" characteristic of octogessima.
More scrolls were wedged into the wall's pigeonholes, along with minature assemblages of circuitry and glass, a theramin wand, coils of lutestrings and ivory lute-keys, stacks of crystal discs, a broken gamelan.
Use lutestring when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lutestring means (archaic) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon..
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A dressing chemise of Tiffany which she had on over a blue lutestring
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