skipdent

skip·dent

[skip-dent]
noun
an open-weave effect in fabric, produced by purposely omitting specific warp ends in the drawing-in process.

Origin:
skip1 + dent1

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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