ticking
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈtɪkɪŋ/
:
tela para colchones
- The mattress was covered in durable ticking to ensure it would last for years.
- mattress ticking
- ticking pillows
- ticking stripe
Examples
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She chose a ticking fabric to recover her old dining chairs, giving them a fresh look.
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The night prior to our wedding, Luke gave me a little trunk, lined in blue-and-white ticking, with a cunning compartment hidden in the lid.
Fiction book (1997) -
My true desire was some sort of ticking fabric.
Blog text (28) -
The tallest boy wore ticking-striped shorts exactly like a pair.
Fiction book (1995) -
It is a good one, combed cotton with not a seed in it and covered with a smooth ticking.
Fiction book (2002) -
All that she had cluttered the floor: grocery store boxes with odds and ends: her shot glass collection, ancient encyclopedias, worn winter coats losing their ticking.
Fiction book (2002) -
They won't let that soak into the mattress, becoming contaminated with blue striped cotton ticking.
Fiction book (2001) -
Loosely spread over the blue ticking was a pinkish blanket, its trim a trap, a bracelet for the foot to catch itself in during the uneasy night.
Fiction book (1996) -
While heavy on the shabby-chic, pieces like ticking cloth pillows and decorative lamps with Edison bulbs are mainstays at this shop.
Blog text (24) -
She places the chipped enamel blue-rimmed urinal, draped with a scrap of mattress ticking, on the chair beside him.
Fiction book (1996)
Idioms
1
9.2
To keep going without giving up after facing many hard times
Compounds
How Durable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ticking for the cloth comes from an older word tick meaning 'mattress cover'. That's why ticking is the strong, tightly woven cloth used to wrap and protect mattresses and pillows.