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The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.
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A loop for pulling or lifting something.
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A border of lace or other material, worn on the inner front edge of ladies' bonnets.
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A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.
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A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies.
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A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.
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One who wears a tabard.
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A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard.
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A stout silk having satin stripes, -- used for furniture.
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A concretion in the joints of the bamboo, which consists largely or chiefly of pure silica. It is highly valued in the East Indies as a medicine for the cure of bilious vomitings, bloody flux, piles, and various other diseases.
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A fabric like poplin, with a watered surface.
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A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
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A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
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A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
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An old maid or gossip.