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embroidery floss
Variant of floss
noun
- the rough silk covering a silkworm's cocoon
- the short, downy waste fibers of silk
- a soft, loosely twisted thread or yarn, as of silk () or cotton, used in embroideryin full embroidery floss
- a soft, silky substance resembling floss, as in milkweed pods
- dental floss
transitive verb, intransitive verb
to clean (the teeth) with dental floss
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