spider cloth

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sheer fabric made of cotton and silk. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — 1907, Dry Goods Guide, New York: Black Publishing Company, p. 19, Several new fabrics of cotton and silk are marvels of beauty in design and color. Spider cloth, which comes under this list, is very sheer and has a silk sheen. It is printed in floral patterns or in narrow stripes alternating with floral designs in spray or detached blossoms, the colors in all the delicate tones of pink, green and gray or in blue and white.
  2. A cloth (real, hypothetical or imaginary) manufactured using spider silk. countable,uncountable
    — 1885, The Popular Science Monthly, March 1885, “Popular Miscellany,” p. 718, A few species of spiders encourage the hope that the manufacture of spider cloth may yet become something more than a dream.

词形变化

spider cloths plural spider-cloth alternative
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