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- noun
Twilled fabric or patterning, or the process which produces this.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hirst puts in twenty-two hour days, seven days a week, typically including painting a dozen works of art, installing a gallery show in London, mining diamonds in Botswana for his skull sculptures, and twilling cotton into denim for his Levi's line.
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I learned how to tablet weave and how to twill from Karina Grömer, and she taught me her way of twilling, no counting needed.
Season Start is drawing near! a stitch in time 2009
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Although it was basically Maurice twilling the cape around.
Dancing with the Stars: Season Seven Quarter Finals | The Disney Blog 2008
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They had no longer their robes of serge, made of bits and scraps, stained mud colour, but robes of violet-brown, like plums on which was spread the white twilling of a new surplice.
En Route 1877
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Thursday: 9 a.m. stained glass, quilting, twilling; 9: 45 a.m.
unknown title 2009
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The inhabitants catch them by the following itratagem: they tie a bull to a ftake, fixed on the more, in the depth of two feet water: they then beat and torment him, by twilling his tail, until they make him roar; as foon as thefe creatures hear his cries, they crawl to the bull, and are eafily taken.
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(Ivoeh!) the breezy side (for showm!), the height of Brewster’s chimpney and as broad below as Phineas Barnum; humph — ing his share of the showthers is senken on him he’s such a grandfallar, with a pocked wife in pickle that’s a flyfire and three lice nittle clinkers, two twilling bugs and one midgit pucelle.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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They are taken by a brge hook baited with a cod E (h, and faflened to an irtrxi chiin with a fwivcl, to prevent them frorti biting or twilling k off.
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