sewing cotton

American  

noun

1. cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of sewing cotton

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

I look in on the haberdashery stall for some sewing cotton – but it too is riddled with plastic, from cotton reels to buttons.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2017

Peek and Frean's biscuits, Moir's and Crosse and Blackwell's tinned meats and jams, English patent medicines, Coats' sewing cotton, Belfast linens, Berlin wools, Jæger's vests, and all sorts of materials, both cotton and woollen, abound.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Sit here, missy, till I come back to you; I am going to fetch another reel of sewing cotton from the house.

From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.

Betty laid her package of sewing cotton and knitting wool quietly on the blue and white checked tablecloth.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

All about the halls were cheap ornaments, photographs, and, carefully framed, an advertisement of Coats’ sewing cotton!

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh