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ALLEGAS

Volume 1 · 55 words · 1810 Edition

or ALLEGAS, a fluff manufactured in the East Indies. There are two sorts of them; some are of cotton, and others of several kinds of herbs, which are spun like flax and hemp. Their length and breadth are of eight ells, by five, fix, or seven eighths; and of twelve ells, by three-fourths or five-eighths.