sewing cotton

American  

noun

1. cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of sewing cotton

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

I look in on the haberdashery stall for some sewing cotton – but it too is riddled with plastic, from cotton reels to buttons.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2017

For sewing cotton or linen the best cotton thread should be used.

From Textiles and Clothing by Watson, Kate Heintz

Can’t you see Nick, with his long black hair all cut short, and his vulture neck sticking out of the top end of his clothes, like—like a thread of sewing cotton in a darning needle?

From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell

I can sew them up in lumps with sewing cotton if there's no time to do them properly.

From The Phoenix and the Carpet by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

"There was one started a sewing cotton, the only one I ever heard tell of."

From The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)