twilling
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twilling (countable and uncountable, plural twillings)
- Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 563:
- It seemed to Yashmeen that the secret of the Snazzbury frock lay in the lining, the precise, as one would say, microscopic fine-structure of the twilling, which after inspection seemed far from uniform in the way it skipped over the threads