organzine

or·gan·zine

a strong raw-silk thread made of twisted strands
a fabric made of such threads

Origin of organzine

French organsin from Italian organzino, probably after Urgan?, name of a town in Russian Turkestan, famous as a silk market in medieval times

organzine

noun

A raw-silk thread, usually used as a warp thread.

Origin of organzine

French organsin from Italian organzino probably after Organzi (Urganch), a city of western Uzbekistan

organzine

Noun

(plural organzines)

A kind of double thrown silk of very fine texture; silk twisted like a rope with different strands, so as to increase its strength.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Origin

From French organsin; compare Spanish organsino, Italian organzino.

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According to the qualities of raw silk used and the throwing operations undergone the principal classes of thrown silk are - (1) " singles," which consist of a single strand of twisted raw silk made up of the filaments of eight to ten cocoons; (2) tram or weft thread, consisting of two or three strands of raw silk not twisted before doubling and only lightly spun (this is soft, flossy and comparatively weak); (3) organzine, the thread used for warps, made from two and rarely three twisted strands spun in the direction contrary to that in which they are separately twisted.

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