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

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sewing cotton

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

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

On the other side was a rude table containing boxes of cotton cloth, cambrics or checked goods, sewing cotton, buttons, thimbles, scissors, jack-knives, needles, and pins.

From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 by Various

"Tom," I said, "you are perfectly unbearable," and I tried to snatch from him my reel of sewing cotton which he had pulled away just as I was going to take a new thread.

From The Boys and I by Molesworth, Mrs.

I can sew them up in lumps with sewing cotton if there's no time to do them properly.

From The Phoenix and the Carpet by Nesbit, E. (Edith)