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lutestring
[ loot-string ]
noun
- a silk fabric of high sheen, formerly used in the manufacture of dresses.
- a narrow ribbon finished with a high gloss.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lutestring1
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Example Sentences
My new lace handkerchief was down upon the seat, lest Dolly soil her bright pink lutestring.
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She had come down in the pink lutestring, smiling but pale; and traces of tears in her eyes, I thought.
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There's the black lutestring petticoat Sylvy fetched me two years ago; but there ain't any gown to it.
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Look 'ee, now, at this lutestring piece I got to Penzance church-town.
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Hannah was dressed in a lead-courlered habbit, open, with a lylack lutestring scirt.
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