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noun
- A type of cotton cloth, especially as dyed and waterproofed.
- 1979: It really was beautifully executed, more like a forgery than a copy, for the copyist had laid it down on a backing and had even added a cachet de vente, a couple of collectors' marks and a museum reference numer. " Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol (Penguin 2001, p. 321)
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noun
- Fabric woven on a jacquard loom.
- Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.
- A jacquard loom.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to a jacquard loom or the fabric it creates.
- The White house has jacquard drapes in the East Room.
| | Jean |
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proper noun
- (given name, female) Hypocoristics: Jeanie, Jeannie.
| | Jenny |
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proper noun
- (given name, female), a diminutive of Jane and Jennifer.
| | Jersey |
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proper noun
- The largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel between France and Great Britain.
- A type of cow from Jersey.
- (colloquial) New Jersey.
| | jig |
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noun
- A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- (context, fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- Cutting circles out of pinewood is best done with a compass-style jig.
verb (jig, g, ed)
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- (context, fishing) To fish with a jig.
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