lutestring
lutestring noun: a plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
Noun
lutestring (countable and uncountable, plural lutestrings)
- A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
- There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean the fat lady in the luteſtring trollopee. Betvveen you and I, ſhe is but a cutler's vvife. See hovv ſhe's dreſſed, as fine as hands and pins can make her […]1759 October 24 (Gregorian calendar), [Oliver] Goldsmith, “On Dress”, in The Bee, a Select Collection of Essays, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects, […], new edition, number 2, London...
- Lord, I have ſuch a deal to do, I ſhall ſcarce have time to ſlip on my Italian luteſting.—VVhere is this davvdle of a houſekeeper?1766, George Colman, David Garrick, The Clandestine Marriage, a Comedy. […], London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […]; R[oberts] Baldwin, […]; R. Davis, […]; and T[homas] Davies, […], →OCLC, Act...
- A type of moth with a band-like marking across the forewing, of the former taxonomic family Thyatiridae, also, the band-like marking.
- There are six hook-tips and 10 in the lutestring group, which was formerly treated as a separate family, Thyatiridae.2015, Chris Manley, British Moths, page 196
- A quartet of moths in the subfamily Thyatirinae, known collectively as lutestrings – of which the spring-flying Frosted Green and Yellow Horned are also members.2021, James Lowen, British Moths: A Gateway Guide, page 75
- The string of a lute.
- More scrolls were wedged into the wall's pigeonholes, along with minature assemblages of circuitry and glass, a theramin wand, coils of lutestrings and ivory lute-keys, stacks of crystal discs, a broken gamelan.2010, George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Songs of the Dying Earth: Short Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, page 461
- Seventeen shillings went on replacement lutestrings for Elizabeth herself. Her greatest pleasures were playing her lute or virginals, reading or sewing.2011, Alison Weir, Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558, page 131
lutestring meaning in Tamil
lutestring in Tamil
- ஒரு பட்டுத்துணி வகை
Examples of lutestring in a sentence
- A dressing chemise of Tiffany which she had on over a blue lutestring1784, Abagail Adams, cited in David McCullough, John Adams, page 305
- Other lutestrings (3 spp., each in its own genus [n/i]), which do not have black spot on forewing and lack the black dash on wingtip.2021, Paul D. Brock, Britain's Insects, page 429:
- These specimens have the "lutestrings" of or, and the "figure of 80" characteristic of octogessima.2023, Richard South, The Moths of the British Isles:
Forms of lutestring
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Origin of lutestring
Corrupted form of French lustring, probably influenced by lute.
Questions about lutestring
- What does lutestring mean?
- Lutestring means a plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
- What is lutestring in Tamil?
- Lutestring in Tamil is ஒரு பட்டுத்துணி வகை. See Lutestring meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use lutestring in a sentence?
- A dressing chemise of Tiffany which she had on over a blue lutestring
- What part of speech is lutestring?
- Lutestring is a noun.
- What is the plural of lutestring?
- The plural of lutestring is lutestrings.
Words near lutestring in the dictionary
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