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torchon
n. A coarse, loose-textured bobbin lace
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Usage examples of "torchon".
When the fall rains came he worked outdoors on oil torchon and captured the effects he wanted.
Two or three of these, with ingratiating smirks, converged upon the spot where their young chief halted and called aloud for torchon lace.
And there were daffodil shoes and stockings, a plume fan in a hat-box on her knee, and a lovely trained white underskirt with billowy frills of torchon, the very sight of which made Meg wild to be grown up.
Astrakhan trimming, a frill of torchon lace, six dear little festooned handkerchiefs, and four pairs of open-work stockings - none of which were contemplated when she entered the shop - her sixpenny saving was not as brilliant a piece of finance as she imagined.