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

With these is intermixed a piece of worsted, and a thread of sewing cotton; a few horsehairs succeed, and the whole of the interior is thickly matted with the white silky down of the coltsfoot.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

Here, my boy: here are a dozen shirts already cut out, with the sewing cotton, buttons, and so forth rolled up in them.

From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

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.

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