e/Bengaline silk

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has glosseng: Bengaline silk is a woven material which became fashionable for women and children to wear in the 1880s and 1890s. It offered the impression of genuine silk but was actually made with lesser amounts of silk than cotton. Lizzie Borden stated at her December 1892 inquest that she was wearing a dress made of bengaline silk on the morning she was accused of murdering her father and stepmother.
lexicalizationeng: bengaline silk
instance of(noun) a weave in which the filling and warp threads intersect in such a way as to give a smooth compact surface with no distinguishable twill line
satin weave

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