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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Twisted tightly in spinning, often to the point of curling and looping. Used of yarn.
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Cambric was a kind of fine white linen, originally made at Cambray in Flanders, though the name was occasionally also applied to an imitation made of hard-spun cotton.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Cambric was a kind of fine white linen, originally made at Cambray in Flanders, though the name was occasionally also applied to an imitation made of hard-spun cotton.
Mrs. Hume 2009
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Drest her with gems, new weaved her hard-spun thought,
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665
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Dressed her with gems, new-weaved her hard-spun thought,
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 John Dryden 1665
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Milton's chaste treatment of the subject of Eve's nuptials by contrasting what he says with the account in the opera in which Dryden, according to Lee's verses, refined "Milton's golden ore, and new-weaved his hard-spun thought."] [Footnote 127: Addison, on reading here this remark upon Virgil, which he himself had communicated to Steele, discovered that his friend was the author of the _Tatler_.
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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