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Definition of Plushes
1. plush [n] - See also: plush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plushes
Literary usage of Plushes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Economy of High Wages: An Inquiry Into the Cause of High Wages and Their by Jacob Schoenhof, Thomas Francis Bayard (1892)
"plushes, Pile Fabrics, Knit Goods classed with Clothing.—Carpets.—Lower Cost of
Labor than in England.—Great Trade Depressions at Home. ..."
2. Workers of the Nation: An Encyclopedia of the Occupations of the American by Gilson Willets (1903)
"... Machinery and Operatives—Making Silk Ribbon—Looms— Velvets and plushes THE
SILK INDUSTRY THE silk maker's art, transplanted from Europe, ..."
3. Republican Campaign Text Book for by Republican Congressional Committee, Republican National Committee (U.S.). (1894)
"Up to 1883 we manufactured in this country no mohair plushes at all. We used
immense quantities for car seats, for furniture covers, and all that sort of ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"It is not generally known that practically all of the plushes used in railway
... Besides these plushes, which are usually plain, large quantities of frieze ..."
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