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Definition of Torchons
1. torchon [n] - See also: torchon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Torchons
Literary usage of Torchons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of by United States, John Allan Mallory (1917)
"US (1912) 3 Ct Cust App. 263. 8. Tidies.—Renaissance lace tidies held not dutiable
as manufactures of tidies. See paragraph 358. 9. torchons.—Under Rev. ..."
2. Treaties and Tariffs Regulating the Trade Between Great Britain and Foreign by Edward Hertslet (1876)
"A thick and coarse tissue called " torchons," worked on the loom, and used for
curtains ... Ordinary black tulle is also to be treated as " tulle torchons. ..."
3. V.R. 76 ; a French Military Hospital by Harold James Reckitt, Margaret Storrs Turner (1921)
"... whilst Madame undertook the socks (an appalling and almost endless task),
aprons, overalls and, worst of all, the torchons. torchons was ..."
4. Bobbins of Belgium: A Book of Belgian Lace, Lace-workers, Lace-schools and by Charlotte Kellogg (1920)
"The torchons once thoroughly mastered, the student has traveled a considerable
distance on the lace journey. The study of Torchon is succeeded by Cluny in ..."
5. Pillow Lace, a Practical Hand-book by Elizabeth Mincoff, Margaret S. Marriage (1907)
"It is especially useful in the copying of simple torchons ; indeed, ...
Strictly geometrical torchons are not hard to design, there being a few given ..."
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