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noun
1.
a warp-knit fabric of various natural or synthetic fibers, as wool, silk, or nylon, having fine vertical ribs on the face and horizontal ribs on the back, used especially for making garments.
2.
a kind of worsted cloth.
Origin:
1870–75; < French: knitting, knitted fabric, sweater, derivative of tricoter to knit ≪ Germanic; akin to German stricken to knit
1870–75; < French: knitting, knitted fabric, sweater, derivative of tricoter to knit ≪ Germanic; akin to German stricken to knit
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tricot
1859, from Fr. tricot "knitting, knitted work," from tricoter "to knit," probably a variant of O.Fr. estriquer "to smooth," from a Gmc. source (e.g. M.L.G. striken "pass over lightly").
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