What does sleaved mean?
Sleaved means Raw; not spun or wrought..
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Raw; not spun or wrought..
sleaved thread or silk
The cure is, with a fine small wiar little stronger then a Verginal wiar, and wrapt close about with a soft sleaved silk, and the point blunt and pliantness of the wiar will easily do;
Under the tip of one of the wings, I discovered the end of a fine filament like sleaved silk.
Those whiter lilies which the early morn Seems to have newly woven of sleavèd silk, To which, on banks of wealthy Tagus born, Gold was their cradle, liquid pearl their milk.
Why is sleaved Silk soe hard
Richard Hakluyt in his catalogue of the cargo of the Madre de Dios, a typical carrack captured by the English in 1592, lists 'silks, damasks, taffetas, sarcenets, altobassos, that is, counterfeit cloth of gold, unwrought China silks, sleaved silk, white twisted silk, curled cypresse', […]
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Sleaved means Raw; not spun or wrought..
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sleaved thread or silk
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