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Definition of Selvages
1. selvage [n] - See also: selvage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selvages
Literary usage of Selvages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tertiary Igneous Rocks of Skye by Alfred Harker (1904)
"In this chapter we shall give some account of the selvages of black glass ...
selvages in Skye. The true nature of this vitreous substance was, however, ..."
2. The Mechanism of Weaving by Thomas William Fox (1894)
"PAET XXII CENTRE AND SIDE selvages Centre selvages are required to hold the edge
threads in position when two or more narrow pieces are woven side by ..."
3. A Collection of the Most Important Cases Respecting Patents of Invention and by John Davies (1816)
"It may be said, what is the loss of cutting off one of these selvages ? ...
It has two operations: it makes the selvages perfect, and it does more, ..."
4. Decisions on the Law of Patents for Inventions Rendered by [English Courts by United States Supreme Court, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Woodbury Lowery (1887)
"I do not know whether this was stated by Mr. Galloway, but if the lace is worked
by the hand, it may be always so correct as to produce perfect selvages ..."
5. The Comstock Lode: Its Character, and the Probable Mode of Its Continuance by Ferdinand Richthofen (1866)
"selvages.—All the evidences in the upper levels justify the expectation that the
foot wall will continue with its smooth and regular clay-selvage, ..."
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