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double-knit

or dou·ble knit, dou·ble·knit

[ duhb-uhl-nit, -nit ]

noun

  1. a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
  2. a garment made of such a fabric.


double knit

noun

    1. a knitted material made on two sets of needles that produce a double thickness joined with interlocking stitches
    2. ( as modifier )

      a double-knit fabric

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of double-knit1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

Lander Reversible Sweats: These sweats out of Portland are reversible, containing two styles in one, and are made of soft double-knit cotton with no itchy seams, tags or zippers.

Something other than their double-knit white uniforms with black and gold trim.

Lavishly illustrated, it features three excellent essays and traces the extraordinary visual range of the quilts, which can resemble found-object collages, consist entirely of glowing velvets; or elevate double-knit polyester and vintage clothing.

The cardigan has been cult before: think Starsky & Hutch’s Paul Michael Glaser in a double-knit wool, cerillo and merino knit, with belt, or Jeff Bridges as “the Dude” in a Native American-inspired Westerley cardigan in The Big Lebowski.

For more extravagant departures, she plumbed Eleganza, a defunct catalog replete in its day with shirts bearing floppy nine-inch “dog ear” collars, madly striped flares, leather or denim patchwork coats and two-tone double-knit jumpsuits fashioned, as the catalog copy proclaimed, from “luxurious 100 percent Orlon acrylic!”

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