tussore

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtʌsɔɹ/, /ˈtʌsoʊɹ/

Noun

tussore (countable and uncountable, plural tussores)

1. Alternative form of tussar
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage, published 2007, page 5:

     now and then the fantastic shadows of birds of flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect […]

   • 2001, David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Two: The Rivals, Princeton University Press, pages 657–8:

     The next day, when Hsi-men Ch’ing returned from the yamen, he had the chests opened up and took out a bolt of block printed tussore fabric from the Imperial Silk Manufactory in the south.

Anagrams

• Souters, Strouse, estrous, oestrus, ousters, rousest, sestuor, sourest, souters, toruses, tousers, trouses, trousse, œstrus