tussore
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He made her his bow, plying a broad straw hat and a billowy handkerchief of tussore silk.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
Hilda's is a tussore silk, frightfully sweet, and I had a blouse with a lot of Carrickmacross lace on it.
From Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham
Hannah danced little, a voluntary wallflower, for she looked radiant in tussore silk, and there was an air of refinement about the slight, pretty girl that attracted the beaux of the Club.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
The huge balloon, made of tussore silk, cruised about for some time, then drifted away with the breeze, and came to grief in landing.
From The Mastery of the Air by William J. Claxton
Save for the long French windows, which were now, at midnight, covered with curtains of green tussore silk, there was nothing distinctively foreign about the room.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
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