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Volume 8 · 59 words · 1778 Edition

in commerce, &c., a kind of stuff, having a sort of velvet knap, or shag, on one side, composed regularly of a woof of a single woollen thread, and a double warp; the one wool, of two threads twisted; the other goats or camels hair; tho' there are some plushes entirely of worsted, and others composed wholly of hair.