jacquard
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9.4
- noun
- /dʒəˈkɑrd/
- Specialized
- She decorated her living room with cushions crafted from colorful jacquard textiles.
- silk jacquard
- jacquard fabric
- jacquard jacket
Examples
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Miles of jacquard, shawls
Fiction book (1995) -
This strap is actually a custom woven jacquard with the GL Monogram.
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This one goes over jacquards, and then it shows pictures of how different jacquards on the runway.
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Your creased trousers and jacquard blazer are confusing to them.
Blog text (6) -
When they started making bags with the Signature jacquard fabric (like this one, which I love with the red stripe),
Blog text (13) -
It is by definition less durable than jacquard fabrics and fibers.
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But then there are a lot of these like huge drapery jacquard where they're beautiful and you want to use them, but they're stiff as a board.
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She'd chosen a jacquard blouse embellished with mock jewels and a pair of wool pants that she'd gotten from a mail order catalogue.
Fiction book (1992) -
So the lounge Knit is a heavyweight oversized knitwear piece that has two asymmetric jacquard blocks, one in a slate green and one in a heavy grade.
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The dress was made from a beautiful jacquard fabric with intricate floral patterns.
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.2
A machine for weaving cloth that makes complex patterns automatically
How Ornate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jacquard is named after a French inventor, Joseph Marie Jacquard, who made a special loom that used cards with holes to lift threads and weave very detailed patterns in cloth. So a jacquard is a fabric with raised, detailed patterns made on that loom.