The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lutestring \Lute"string`\, n. [Corrupted fr. lustring.]
A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and
for ribbon.
--Goldsmith.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
Usage examples of "lutestring".
Her pelisse of cerulean blue lutestring parted to reveal a tantalising glimpse of white jaconet and pale blue flounces.
But the war was now over, and most of the English and Dutch navy lay dismantled in port, a few small vessels only being in commission to intercept the smuggling from France that was carrying on, much to the detriment of English manufacture, of certain articles then denominated alamodes and lutestrings.
It went strangely badly, sliding sideways out of the old instruments, twisting away off Farrell’s lutestrings, jeering like chalk on a blackboard.
Seventeen shillings went on replacement lutestrings for Elizabeth herself.