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rayons

  • plural
    of rayon.
    rayon
    noun
    a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.

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Even though I don’t have too many ’30s and ’40s, ’50s items, the items that I do have — I love the fabrics, the rayons.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2022

Velvets, transparent and patterned; chiffons and rayons shot through with metal threads; woolens ingeniously woven through with small wisps of feathers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Three years ago he set his research chief, Everett Nutter, to developing a new cloth to meet the hot competition of rayons and tropical worsteds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beginning in 1922 the market for Amoskeag's coarse cottons, ginghams, denims and flannels shrank rapidly as the new market for rayons grew.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rayons of the sun we see   Diminish in their strength; The shade of every tower and tree   Extendit is in length.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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