crepoline
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This is strengthened by a layer of crepoline, a transparent cloth, on both sides of the piece of paper."
- "In garments a wool or half-wool fabric is frequently trimmed with silk, or a wool and silk fabric (gloria) has a cotton lining or cotton stitching. Such wool and silk mixtures find very wide use in dress fabrics, usually with a silk warp and a wool weft (poplin, bengaline, santoy, crepolines, etc.)."
- "The crepoline sandwich was sewn onto a silk mounting, dyed to match the original silk, so the tattered edge is hardly noticeable."