ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tricotine

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Tricotine is a noun meaning A double twill fabric of tightly twisted yarns.

Meaning

A double twill fabric of tightly twisted yarns.

Example Sentences

The whole strengthening movement goes back to the run on 50s two-ply yarn to go into tricotines.
She wrote to Florence for blue tricotine, enough for Marie to run up a dress she could wear to the office, and asked her stepmother to send a cutting of the fabric to her
I was often the one to design original corsages for the campus debs...tiny bouquets to enhance the skirt of an antebellum gown or 5-braided silver or gold cord bracelets and necklaces with sweetheart roses embellished with French tricotine.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tricolette, twill, twilling, twist, tweel, twinemaking.

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