Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tusser-silk . - noun An oak-feeding silkworm, Antheræa mylitta, furnishing a silk of great strength, but of coarse quality and hard to reel.
- noun A kind of silk cloth woven from tusser-silk.
- noun A dress or garment of tussersilk.
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- noun oriental moth that produces brownish silk
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Examples
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Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. Erick Schonfeld 2005
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Wonderful tusser silk draperies fell about her, with ink-spots on the sleeves; her hair was magnificent.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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a cigar, disclosing himself a bald Armenian in tusser silk trousers and
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
chained_bear commented on the word tusser
"Molly wore an emerald green tunic and a dress of gold tusser."
—Peter Carey, Illywhacker, 160
April 16, 2009