oiled silk
Britishnoun
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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
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
A sleeping bag made of eiderdown, lined with canton flannel and covered with oiled silk or duck's back can be rolled and carried across the shoulders.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Might not a cheap, portable, and convenient globe, be made of oiled silk, to be inflated by a common pair of bellows?
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
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