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Answer for the clue "Elastic fabric ", 7 letters:
spandex

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Spandex , Lycra or elastane is a synthetic fiber known for its exceptional elasticity . It is stronger and more durable than natural rubber . It is a polyester - polyurethane copolymer that was invented in 1958 by chemist Joseph Shivers at DuPont 's Benger ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spandex \Span"dex\, prop. n. An elastic textile material, used for clothing [Trade name]

Usage examples of spandex.

Victor Kolinski, flexed again, admiring himself in his latest Danskin aerobics spandex bodysuit, in the mirrors of his personal Aurora Heights townhouse gym.

Just like a group of fifteen more-or-less-young women, in microskirts and spandex, about to go through the hard work of having sex with strangers.

She figured Spandex for one of the Korean styles, Eyebrows for a Japanese or Okinawan fighting form.

Christa would look like in stage clothes, and the thought of the gentle harper clad in leather and spandex, draped with chains, her wrists wrapped in studded bracelets and her red hair backcombed and spiked, made Melinda laugh amid the clouds of steam.

She was wearing black spandex biking pants with a Day-Glo green stripe down the leg and a matching black halter sports top and pale gray Reebok workout shoes.

I listen and imagine those kiddies as they will become, dressed in spandex uniforms, lasers at the ready, enduring fleabites as they crawl through mud, or lie chilled and sleeping on frozen tundra.

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The object of a strange and maybe kind of cliquey affection from Lyle the Spandexed sweat-guru, to whom he sometimes brings Caffeine-Free Diet Cokes to cut the diet's salt, Mario sometimes finds younger E.

Following the psychic current to its source, he found Freya Baldursson in the Mound of Venus, resplendent in her superhero garb of black spandex bodysuit and rune-embroidered baseball cap, the contrast merely emphasizing her dazzling, almost inhuman blondness, a look calculated to tickle the eye of either gender.

She wore a spandex bra and bicycle shorts, and headphones with a small antenna framed a blonde ponytail.

Jill and Andrea were both dressed in short beach dresses over their new bathing suits, while Gabe was wearing black spandex bicycle shorts and a cutoff T-shirt that made him look like a finalist in the Mr.

Some bubbleheaded hack writer who thinks she can strut around in spandex and a half a ton of makeup, then go home to her nice neighborhood and wash it all off.

It had a low scoop neck showing an acre of cleavage and it was tucked into a matching spandex miniskirt.

He affected a costume that suited his talent: white tunic trimmed with gold braid, peck-measure cap, white spandex stirrup pants, and boots that used to be a horror to run in until the Wonder Lady tipped him off about a custom shoemaker who worked for the trade.

That afternoon, for instance, I was wearing a man's paisley vest I'd found at a yard sale, over a striped button-down shirt with tuxedo-stripe black Spandex stirrup pants, held up with pink-flecked black suspenders.