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Louis Vuitton has created a truly flattering shearling by ingeniously stripping tightly cropped mouse-gray sheepskin onto leather to create a wonderful cord-like effect on their form-fitting knee-length Crombie.

The Great Winter Coat Tina Gaudoin 2010

The author of this parody does not intend to encourage any persons or animals to actually attempt to cross Niagara Falls, or any other body of water, ravine or other such space, on a tightrope, nor on any long piece of string, rope, yarn or other cord-like entity that might be mistaken for or misused as a tightrope.

This Is Only A Parody James F. McGrath 2007

Geno roared and charged right into the bed, his cord-like muscles heaving wildly.

The Woods Out Back Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1993

It had a length of dark cord-like stuff projecting from a hole in it.

On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

= Rep. = A fabric having a surface of a cord-like appearance.

Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

The red glow of the furnaces bathed the tall buildings, the gigantic scaffolds, the cord-like elevated pipelines and the columnar smokestacks in the crimson of anger.

The Whispering Spheres Russell Robert Winterbotham

Funicule: a small, cord-like structure; especially when sheathed.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

On lifting up the scales of the bark, there will be found, not the silky white, delicate mycelium of the _Trametes_, but probably the dark cord-like rhizomorphs; there may also be flat white rhizomorphs in the young stages, but they are easily distinguished.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 Various

Pass the needle under the stitch and bring it out in front, thus twice twisting the thread, which produces the cord-like appearance of this stitch.

The Art of Modern Lace Making The Butterick Publishing Co.

There is the creeping club-moss, the cord-like stem of which, sometimes yards long, hides among the dead leaves, and sends up at intervals graceful whorls of bright green.

Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various