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The edge of a fabric that is woven so that it will not ravel or fray
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selvage
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Selvage \Sel"vage\, Selvedge \Sel"vedge\, n. [Self + edge, i. e., its own proper edge; cf. OD. selfegge.] The edge of cloth which is woven in such a manner as to prevent raveling. The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes. --Knight. (Mining.) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A selvage (US English) or selvedge (British English) is a self-finished edge of fabric . The selvages keep the fabric from unraveling or fraying. The selvages are a result of how the fabric is created. In woven fabric, selvages are the edges that run parallel ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context weaving English) The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge. 2 Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "edge of web or cloth so finished as to prevent raveling," apparently literally "its own edge," a corruption of self + edge (n.); on analogy of Middle Flemish selvegge (compare also Low German sulfegge; Dutch zelfkant , from kant "border;" Middle ...
Usage examples of selvage.
Yet but one flimsy riband of Its web Have we here watched in weaving--web Enorm, Whose furthest hem and selvage may extend To where the roars and plashings of the flames Of earth-invisible suns swell noisily, And onwards into ghastly gulfs of sky, Where hideous presences churn through the dark-- Monsters of magnitude without a shape, Hanging amid deep wells of nothingness.
Along the selvage of the scrub-girt plain the old man looked long and earnestly.
He listened harder and realized the thunder was not from the sky but low-planed along the streets, where sled axles humped the faulted paving, bounding off stone buildings, cueing windowpanes into quick vibration, echoing in closed alleyways, dying somewhere out there in the heat, distantly, leaving him with the tag ends of thoughts, the selvage of raveled dreams.
Along the selvage of many of the new roads we have foretold, his hens will peck and his children beg, far into the coming decades.
In a few cases a border or selvage of very simple construction is seen.
Presently the serving-man entered with a laver of sea-water, and an Israelitish robe, fringed and bound at the selvage with blue.
You can lose your whole stock if you sell short cloth without marking it by cutting the selvage.