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Like fabric with knots
Answer for the clue "Like fabric with knots ", 5 letters:
nubby
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Word definitions for nubby in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. knobbly
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1876, from nub + -y (2).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: homespun(p) , nubbly , slubbed , tweedy ]
Usage examples of nubby.
I touched the armrest, felt the rough, nubby weave that wore like iron.
A jeweler by profession, he wore two pendant necklaces over a nubby sweater, matching pajamalike trousers and nubuck clogs.
The crisp cottons, the nubby wools, soft flannels and smooth bright satins, all of it a pleasure.
He was medium-size, late thirties to forty, solidly built, with a well-cured beach tan and a nubby, sunburned nose.
Noelle's cabin is neat, austere, underfurnished: no paintings, no light-sculptures, nothing to please the visual sense, only a few small sleek bronze statuettes, a smooth oval slab of green stone, and some objects evidently chosen for their rich textures—a strip of nubby fabric stretched across a frame, a sea urchin's stony test, a collection of rough sandstone chunks.