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rawsilk

rawsilk is the alternative form of raw silk.

Meaning of raw silk

Noun

raw silk (uncountable)

  1. Silk that has not been processed to remove sericin.
    • In settling the price to be paid for the waste, the owner and the throwster must agree on a fair value for the raw silk.1922, Warren Pharoah Seem, Raw Silk Properties: Classification of Raw Silk and Silk Throwing

Questions about rawsilk

What is rawsilk the alternative form of?
Rawsilk is the alternative form of raw silk.

Words near rawsilk in the dictionary

  1. Raworths
  2. rawr
  3. rawranoke
  4. Rawreth
  5. raws
  6. rawsilk
  7. Rawson
  8. Rawson Green
  9. rawsonol
  10. Rawsonville
  11. rawstock

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