"Vicugna" is a word in ENGLISH
A South American mammal (Auchenia vicunna) native of the
elevated plains of the Andes, allied to the llama but smaller. It has a
thick coat of very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white
hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.
Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.
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A driver pulled up beside a rundown farmhouse. He got out and knocked at the door. A very old woman answered the door, and he asked her for directions to Des Moines."Don't know," the woman said.He got back in his car and pulled away. Then he heard voices. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the woman and an equally old man waving for him to come back. So he made a U- turn and drove up to them."This is my husband," the old woman said. "He doesn't know how to get to Des Moines either."
Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.
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Read the complete definitionWool of the alpaca.
Read the complete definitionalpáka - (Sp. alpaca) Alpaca, the animal as well as the thin, light fabrics made from its soft, silky wool.
Read the complete definitionA fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.
Read the complete definitionIn English law. Ancient custom. An export duty on wool, wool-felts, and leather, imposed during the reign of Edw. I. …
Read the complete definitionA material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.
Read the complete definitionThe skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.
Read the complete definitionFine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool.
Read the complete definitionIn Eng-lish law. An obsolete writ addressed to a corporation for the carrying of weights to such a haven, there …
Read the complete definitionA heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric …
Read the complete definitionOriginally, cotton, or cotton wool.
Read the complete definitionCountry people; deriv-ed from the French bourre, (Lat. floccus.) a lock of wool, because they covered thelr heads with such …
Read the complete definitionA kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.
Read the complete definitionA narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.
Read the complete definitionA kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; -- used formerly as an edging and ornament, …
Read the complete definitionA genus of coarse biennial herbs (Lappa), bearing small burs which adhere tenaciously to clothes, or to the fur or …
Read the complete definitionA machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
Read the complete definitionAbounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.
Read the complete definitionbúyò - A parcel or bundle of flax, wool, cotton, etc. put on a distaff for spinning; to bundle, make …
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