tricotine

English

Noun

tricotine (countable and uncountable, plural tricotines)

1. A double twill fabric of tightly twisted yarns.
   • 1921, Fibre & Fabric:

     The whole strengthening movement goes back to the run on 50s two-ply yarn to go into tricotines.

   • 2006, Marjorie E de Cuba, Tentacles of Time: A Spiritual Odyssey, →ISBN, page 67:

     I was often the one to design original corsages for the campus debs...tiny bouquets to enhance the skirt of an antebellum gown or 5-braided silver or gold cord bracelets and necklaces with sweetheart roses embellished with French tricotine.

   • 2015, Georgina Howell, Queen of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, →ISBN:

     She wrote to Florence for blue tricotine, enough for Marie to run up a dress she could wear to the office, and asked her stepmother to send a cutting of the fabric to her