empress cloth

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Noun[edit]

empress cloth (countable and uncountable, plural empress cloths)

  1. A cloth for women's dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for empress cloth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)