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Tulle (Silk)

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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A term restricted in England to a fine bobbin-net of silk, used for veils, scarves, millinery purposes, and trimmings of ladies' dresses, &c. The French used the word to mean all machine-made lace the basis of which is the intertwisted network made on the bobbin-net machine. The word is derived from the town of Tulle in France.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Tulle (Silk)'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​t/tulle-silk.html. 1910.
 
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