tussar
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hindi तसर (tasar), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit तसर (tasara, “shuttle”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
tussar (countable and uncountable, plural tussars)
- A deep gold-coloured silk produced from larvae of several species of silk worms belonging to the moth genus Antheraea
- 1841, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 10, Part 2, p. 511, [1]
- The principal manufacture throughout this district is the tusser or jungle silk.
- 1863, The Technologist: A Monthly Record of Science Applied to Art, Manufacture, and Culture, Peter Lund Simmons (ed.), London: Kent & Co., Vol. III, p. 111, [2]
- The Tusseh silk is pretty well known in the English market; it is supplied by a large moth measuring five and a-half to six inches from wing to wing, the Antheræa paphia of Linnæus: The silk is strong and coarse, of a flax-brown colour.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 143-4, [3]
- She wore a black lustre skirt that just exposed her broken button-boots, a white blouse topped heavily with moth-eaten lace, a long coat of well-worn tusser, and a purplish black silk hat […]
- 1996, Manju Kak, "The Collector" in Requiem for an Unsung Revolutionary and Other Stories, Delhi: Ravi Dayal, p. 165, [4]
- The carpets were rich with colour and design, the sofas were covered in silks and tussars […]
- 2008, Nicholas Storey, History of Men's Fashion: What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Remember When, p. 99 [5]
- […] one could very well have such a jacket made out of tussore (or tussar) which is unbleached raw silk produced by the larvae of the moth Antheraea paphia.
- 1841, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Volume 10, Part 2, p. 511, [1]
- Any of the moth species used to produce tussar silk
- 1980, Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi, The Kharia, Then and Now: A Comparative Study of Hill, Dhelki, and Dudh Kharia of the Central-eastern Region of India, Concept Publishing, p. 197, [6]
- Kharias have also learnt to prepare certain fibres for different purpose as they are expert in spinning, weaving, tussar rearing […]
- 2006, Shankarlal C. Bhatt, Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: In 36 Volumes. Madhya Pradesh, Volume 15, p. 289, [7]
- In order to strengthen the rearing of tusser worms, extensive plantation of Saja and Arjun plants will be undertaken by the forest department.
- 2015, Judith MacKenzie, The Intentional Spinner: A Holistic Approach to Making Yarn, Adams Media, [8]
- Tussah moths are harder to raise than Bombyx moths, which have been selected for thousands of years for domestication.
- 1980, Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi, The Kharia, Then and Now: A Comparative Study of Hill, Dhelki, and Dudh Kharia of the Central-eastern Region of India, Concept Publishing, p. 197, [6]
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Noun
tussar
Verb
tussar
- (deprecated template usage) present tense of tussa.