tussar
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From Hindi तसर (tasar), from Sanskrit तसर (tasara, “shuttle”).
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tussar (countable and uncountable, plural tussars)
- A deep gold-coloured silk produced from larvae of several species of silk worms belonging to the moth genus Antheraea
- 1841, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal[1], Volume 10, Part 2, p. 511:
- The principal manufacture throughout this district is the tusser or jungle silk.
- 1863, Peter Lund Simmons, editor, The Technologist: A Monthly Record of Science Applied to Art, Manufacture, and Culture[2], volume III, London: Kent & Co., page 111:
- The Tusseh silk is pretty well known in the English market; it is supplied by a large moth measuring five and a-half to six inches from wing to wing, the Antheræa paphia of Linnæus: The silk is strong and coarse, of a flax-brown colour.
- 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia[3], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, pages 143–4:
- She wore a black lustre skirt that just exposed her broken button-boots, a white blouse topped heavily with moth-eaten lace, a long coat of well-worn tusser, and a purplish black silk hat […]
- 1996, Manju Kak, “The Collector”, in Requiem for an Unsung Revolutionary and Other Stories[4], Delhi: Ravi Dayal, page 165:
- The carpets were rich with colour and design, the sofas were covered in silks and tussars […]
- 2008, Nicholas Storey, History of Men's Fashion: What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing[5], Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Remember When, page 99:
- […] one could very well have such a jacket made out of tussore (or tussar) which is unbleached raw silk produced by the larvae of the moth Antheraea paphia.
- Any of the moth species used to produce tussar silk
- 1980, Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi, The Kharia, Then and Now: A Comparative Study of Hill, Dhelki, and Dudh Kharia of the Central-eastern Region of India[6], Concept Publishing, page 197:
- Kharias have also learnt to prepare certain fibres for different purpose as they are expert in spinning, weaving, tussar rearing […]
- 2006, Shankarlal C. Bhatt, Land and People of Indian States and Union Territories: In 36 Volumes[7], volume 15, Madhya Pradesh, page 289:
- In order to strengthen the rearing of tusser worms, extensive plantation of Saja and Arjun plants will be undertaken by the forest department.
- 2015, Judith MacKenzie, The Intentional Spinner: A Holistic Approach to Making Yarn[8], Adams Media:
- Tussah moths are harder to raise than Bombyx moths, which have been selected for thousands of years for domestication.
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tussar
- indefinite plural of tuss
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