selvage

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Outcrop exposure of gneiss from Milan Ridge in the Miller Range, with lens-shaped felsic zones bordered by mafic selvedges, indicative of local melting.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2011

As for Madam Lashmiheygo, you nose her picklearities—her head to be sure was fantastical; and her spouse had wrapped her with a long ... clock from the land of the selvedges....

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney

When sheets or chamber towels get thin in the middle, cut them in two, sew the selvedges together, and hem the sides.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

It is mostly used in selvedges, where it serves to give more firmness to the edge of an otherwise loosely woven cloth, and prevents the weaving ahead of the edge in a tight weave.

From Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics by Wolfensberger, Arnold

Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf