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Orlon

proprietary name (Du Pont) of synthetic textile fiber, 1948, an invented word (compare nylon).

Usage examples of "orlon".

Tiny black orlon fibers had been found clinging to the bark of a tree--a Scotch pine--about five and a half feet up from the ground, also on the west side of the ravine.

Purplestar sweaters, antique pendants, beaded chokers, organic nuts, horoscopes, sciencefiction movies, fourdollar transparent soap, big English cars, Mexican villas, ecology, pink rolling paper, brownies, seaweed with my pork chops, soy noodles, dacron, rayon, orlon acrylic, Fortrel polyester, Lycra spandex, leather, vinyl, suede, velvet, velours, canvas.

On a bar stool a woman in a black tailormade, which couldnt at that time of year have been anything but some synthetic fabric like orlon, was sitting alone with a pale greenish-colored drink in front of her and smoking a cigarette in a long jade holder.

It was so quiet in Victor's that you almost heard the temperature drop as you came in at the door, On a bar stool a woman in a black tailormade, which couldn't at that time of year have been anything but some synthetic fabric like orlon, was sitting alone with a pale greenishcolored drink in front of her and smoking a cigarette in a long jade holder.

Urging on their panting ruminants, they galloped down the winding corduroy road that led to the dwellings of Orlon.

To the left of Orlon sat Goodgulf in a red fez, revealed as a 32nd Degree Mason and Honorary Shriner, and to his right sat Stomper, clad in the white Gene Autry suit of a Ranger.