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n. - Oriental moth that produces brownish silk.

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  • A number of baggy suits of the lightest tussore material were hanging from the wall.
  • His coat, of tussore, was creased and unfresh, there being no Mary at hand daily to iron it out.
  • Shiraz had laid a suit of tussore silk, a few shirts and collars, and anything that his master might require if he wished to revisit those
  • Stage after stage, and lift after lift, the air getting ever closer and hotter until even the light tussore garments were intolerable and the sweat was pouring down into...
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