Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tusser .
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- noun Alternative form of
tussore .
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- noun oriental moth that produces brownish silk
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Large quantities of lac and tussur silk are gathered in the hilly tract.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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The silk produced by the wild worms of China and India is called "tussah" (or "tussur").
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Mamma, who lived, for the most part, on an old cane chair in a greasy tussur-silk dressing-gown and a big rabbit-warren of a house full of
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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