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- noun textiles A
square piece offabric measuring 50centimetres along each side.
Etymologies
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The piece is made by folding a metre-square piece of fabric into quarters and cutting along the folds; it is fat in comparison with a quarter of a metre off the roll, which would be a long thin piece only 25 centimetres wide.
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