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tent stitch

an embroidery stitch that forms a series of parallel slanting lines

Etymology: < ? tent

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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