JACQUARD

jacquard

(noun) a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom

Jacquard, Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard

(noun) French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

jacquard (countable and uncountable, plural jacquards)

Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.

Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.

(countable) A Jacquard loom.

Source: Wiktionary

Jac*quard", a.

Definition: Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure.

– Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus.

– Jackquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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