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CARDASS

Volume 5 · 63 words · 1815 Edition

a sort of card proper for carding flocks of silk, to make cappadocian of it. It is also the name which the French give to those flocks of silk.

is also the name which, in the cloth manufactories of Languedoc, they give to a sort of large card, which is used for carding the dyed wool, designed for making cloth of mixed colours.