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spider cloths

spider cloths is the plural of spider cloth.

Meaning of spider cloth

Noun

spider cloth (countable and uncountable, plural spider cloths)

  1. (archaic) A sheer fabric made of cotton and silk.
    • Several new fabrics of cotton and silk are marvels of beauty in design and color. Spider cloth, which comes under this list, is very sheer and has a silk sheen. It is printed in floral patterns or in narrow stripes alternating with floral designs in spray or detached blossoms, the colors in all the...1907, Dry Goods Guide, New York: Black Publishing Company, p. 19
  2. A cloth (real, hypothetical or imaginary) manufactured using spider silk.
    • A few species of spiders encourage the hope that the manufacture of spider cloth may yet become something more than a dream.1885, The Popular Science Monthly, March 1885, “Popular Miscellany,” p. 718

Questions about spider cloths

What is spider cloths the plural of?
Spider cloths is the plural of spider cloth.

Words near spider cloths in the dictionary

  1. spider beetles
  2. spider box
  3. spider boxes
  4. spider chart
  5. spider cloth
  6. spider cloths
  7. spider crab
  8. spider crabs
  9. spider crawl
  10. spider diagram
  11. spider diagrams

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