cab·bage2 [kab-ij] Show IPA noun, verb,-baged, -bag·ing.
–noun
1.
Chiefly British.
a.
cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim.
b.
Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
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cor·set [kawr-sit] Show IPA
–noun
1.
Sometimes, corsets. a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, esp. by women, to shape and support the body; stays.
couch·ing [kou-ching] Show IPA
–noun
2.
a method of embroidering in which a thread, often heavy, laid upon the surface of the material, is caught down at intervals by stitches taken with another thread through the material.
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drill3 [dril] Show IPA
–noun
a strong, twilled cotton fabric.
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far·thin·gale [fahr-thing-geyl] Show IPA
–noun
a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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fus·tian [fuhs-chuhn] Show IPA
–noun
1.
a stout fabric of cotton and flax.
2.
a fabric of stout twilled cotton or of cotton and low-quality wool, with a short nap or pile.
3.
inflated or turgid language in writing or speaking: Fustian can't disguise the author's meager plot.
hell [hel] Show IPA
–noun
8.
a receptacle into which a tailor throws scraps.
9.
Also called hellbox. Printing. a box into which a printer throws discarded type.
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