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n. The silk woven from the cocoons of wild silkworms feeding on mountain shrubs.
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Tussore (also tussah or tussur) is the silk woven from the cocoons of wild silkworms feeding on some mountain shrub. The undyed silk is a tan or light brown colour.
There are various types of tussore, each named after the shrub that the cocoons were collected from. The diet of the silkworms has a great effect on the quality of the silk. Collectively, they can be called wild silkworm cloth. Some of the types are listed in the table below,
Shrub
Chinese name
mountain pepper
jiao
cedrala odorata
xiangchun
ailantus glandulosa
shu
wild mulberry
zhe
oak-shrub
zuo
quercus dentata
hu
Usage examples of "tussore".
Beside the table, wedged in a small chair with curved arms, was a very fat man in a tussore suit.
So far as I could see, he still had on the same tussore suit that he had been wearing three days previously.
I could see, he still had on the same tussore suit that he had been wearing three days previously.
In a new dress of black tussore, her somewhat ravaged but carefully repaired face partially concealed by a flattering veil, she chugged away from Europe on a steamer bound for the Caribbean like a respectable widow and she was not yet fifty, after all.
His hands were in the hip-pockets of a suit of tussore silk, well tailored.
The Doctor appeared in his nicely cut tropical suit of tussore or shantung, and a bow tie, a formality suiting his grave, balanced pose.
A very large man in a beautifully cut cream tussore suit got up from a mahogany desk and came to meet him, holding out his hand.
The Acting Governor, in a cream tussore suit and an inappropriate wing collar and spotted bow tie, was sitting at a broad mahogany desk on which there was nothing but the Daily Gleaner, the Times Weekly and a bowl of hibiscus blossoms.
A number of baggy suits of the lightest tussore material were hanging from the wall.
Stage after stage, and lift after lift, the air getting ever closer and hotter until even the light tussore garments were intolerable and the sweat was pouring down into those rubber-soled slippers.
I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
It was written in every line of his drawn fever-worn face, and in his wide fever-lit eyes, and in the clutch of his long yellow hands upon his tussore silk dressing-gown.
He was not prepared for the tall bronzed girl in a cream tussore frock with a black belt who came happily through the door and stood smiling at him.
An old, spare, clean- shaven man, in spotless tussore silk, stepped off the road into the yard.
His tussore suit was scarcely crumpled, his tie unspotted by hydrochloric acid - but his eyes were troubled.