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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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