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noun

a worsted yarn that has been genapped and made smooth and lustrous.

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Origin of genappe yarn

First recorded in 1890–95

To that regard, Mulaney opens with its star spinning a longer joke-yarn based on something that had really happened to him.
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Many of us strike a happy medium, leaving enough wiggle room with reality to spin a good yarn.
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But at least according to its creator, it's also a meta-page-turning crime yarn—a story about storytelling.
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Perhaps that's why Goldfarb didn't comment any further on his yarn.
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I got a bit of flak for interviewing Kelley, though the story was widely picked up: why dive into this tabloid yarn?
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I didn't take much stock in the yarn at the time, but I'm beginning to think he had it straight.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Without embarking on another endless yarn let me note the fact that there are two schools amongst our brethren afloat.
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You can probably realize just how headquarters would take the sort of yarn we'd spin if we dashed in and told them the truth.
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Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
He said, 'Now you shall never make another boiler for me with rope-yarn.'
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