hosiery
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"Women and children strip the osiers in a brake and bundle them into wads getting four pence a wad," he wrote knowledgeably.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2018
Particularly when it came to the business of weaving baskets from willow shoots known as osiers.
From BBC • Aug. 3, 2018
Looms should be brought to cottage doors, old men should plait osiers in full view of the traffic, and smithies must have wide-open doors.
From Time Magazine Archive
These upright pieces are interwoven with osiers, after which, the whole is covered with earth, though not sodded.
From Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi by Bushnell, David Ives
After Easter, Cozonac began to clear the pools of osiers which the priest wove into baskets.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
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