oiled silk
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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With fine oiled silk suture on arterial needles, the incision is closed, and the clamps are removed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rigid frame held a skin of oiled silk in place to contain the hydrogen, and although this was tough enough to withstand minor scratches, a hundredweight of blazing rock was too much for it.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
In that secure receptacle lay a series of packages done up with careful precision in wrappings of oiled silk.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
His fishing tackle, the pride of his young life, was neatly rolled in oiled silk and stood near at hand.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry
The amount of canvas or oiled silk necessary for buoying up the machine is stated to be equal to one square foot for each half pound of weight.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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