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Перевод: sailcloth

[существительное]
парусина

Тезаурус:

1. The town imported raw jute and from 1832 mixed it with whale oil to produce a material capable of being woven into coarse fabrics such as hessian and sailcloth.
2. Crates belonging to millionaires were impressive: beamed and lined with sailcloth, they had solid, elegant walls made of the most expensive grades of tropical wood, with the rings and knots cut and polished like antiques.
3. But by 1850 some of them saw that the linen trade, and particularly the demand for sailcloth, might decline.
4. It will have been made for the sailcloth trade but, due to some minor fault in manufacture, was released to the kite trade instead, and at an economic advantage.
5. , Holbrook (1813-;1909), chemical manufacturer, was born 5 March 1813 in Wavertree, near Liverpool, the eldest son (there was also at least one daughter) of Roger Gaskell, manager of the commercial branch of a Warrington sailcloth firm, and his wife and cousin Anne Hunter.
6. New enterprise was urgently needed, and in 1558 Abingdon started manufacturing sailcloth for the Admiralty.
7. The word jeans originates from the place name Genoa where sailors from the port hit on the idea of making trousers from the sturdy sailcloth.
8. I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes, and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth.