tussore

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Silk may also be bleached with peroxide of hydrogen, but this method is only used for certain qualities of spun silk and for tussore.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

When you've quite finished that," she remarked presently, "there's a tussore frock of my own I want to consult you about.

From The Lamp in the Desert by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

She was drawing on her tan gloves now, and unfurling a parasol of tussore silk with a heavy lace fall.

From Wild Kitty by Meade, L. T.

Hannah danced little, a voluntary wallflower, for she looked radiant in tussore silk, and there was an air of refinement about the slight, pretty girl that attracted the beaux of the Club.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

Margot, in yellow tussore, had hair a shade darker and curlier, and her eyes were hazel.

From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame