- a variation of rep.
repp
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Bennet wore the same uniform today that he has each day of the trial thus far: dark suit, button-down shirt, repp tie, frowny expression.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2022
“I can wear a white poplin pajama shirt with navy piping and a repp tie and blazer and I feel fine.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2015
C is the sofa, upholstered in strong blue railway repp.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
As the repp stripes are only small ones, we use for the satin a full harness, that is, one without open spaces for the repp stripe.
From Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics by Arnold Wolfensberger
All together we have in the satin warp 6888 single and double ends to draw in; of these 252 ends are used for binders, on both sides of the repp stripes.
From Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics by Arnold Wolfensberger
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