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noun (plural: gabardines)
- a type of cloth with a diagonal ribbed texture on one side
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noun
- a long cloak
| | galloon |
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noun
- (obsolete) A braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, or on something like drapery or cushions.
- 1918 And when the "Atlantis" had finally entered the port and all its many-decked mass leaned against the quay, and the gang-plank began to rattle heavily, -- what a crowd of porters, with their assistants, in caps with golden galloons, what a crowd of various boys and husky ragamuffins with pads of colored postal cards attacked the Gentleman from San Francisco, offering their services! " Ivan Bunin, http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=115100150&tag=Bunin,+Ivan:+The+Gentleman+from+San+Francisco,+1918&query=galloon&id=BunGent The Gentleman from San Francisco.
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noun (plural: gathers)
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
verb - To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
- To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.
- To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
- To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.
- To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
- I you mean I'm ignorant rather than stupid.
- To gain; to win.
- To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
- To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
- To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
- To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
- To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
- To collect or bring things together.
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noun
- A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
- A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
- A thin woven metal of plastic mesh.
- wire, Wire gauze, used as fence.
| | gig |
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noun
- (archaic) A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
- (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
- (colloquial) A performing engagement by a musical group.
- I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond
- (colloquial) Any temporary job.
- I had this as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left
- (rare) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
verb (gigs, gigging, gigged)
- To catch with a gig.
- To engage in musical performances.
- The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
- To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
- His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
| | gill |
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- The breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
- One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, on the surface of which the spore-producing organs are borne.
| | gin |
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noun
- (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
- A snare or trap for game.
- A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
- A pile driver.
- A windpump.
- A cotton gin.
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verb (gin, n, ed)
- (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
- (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
| | gingham |
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noun
- A cotton fabric made from dyed and white yarn woven in checks
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proper noun
- (given name, female)
| | gossamer |
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noun
- A fine film or strand as of cobwebs, floating in the air or caught on bushes etc.
- A soft, sheer fabric.
- Anything delicate, light and flimsy.
adjective
- Tenuous, light, filmy or delicate.
- "The heaven was spangled with tremulous stars, and at the horizon the clouds hung down in folds---God's robe trailing in the sea!" — Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)
| | grease |
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
- Animal fat in a melted or soft state; oily or fatty matter of any kind.
- Inflammation of a horse's heels also knowen as scratches (pastern dermatitis).
verb (greas, ing)
- Put grease or fat on something to lubricate.
- To bribe.
- (italbrac, aviation slang) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.
- (slang) To kill
| | greige |
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noun
- (rfv-sense) A colour between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe.
- 1943, S.J. Perelman, The Dream Department http://books.google.com/books?id=7bM6AAAAIAAJ, page 74:
- Brilliant, sparkling reds will complement the bright, new beauty of Fall fashions and accent the subtle reserve of pale Priority beiges and greiges.
- 1959, Paint, Oil and Chemical Review vol. 122 http://books.google.com/books?id=G5U7AAAAMAAJ, page 12:
- The August issue of Better Homes & Gardens, for example, features an article showing which accents look best with greiges and other popular colors.
- 2006, Lauri Ward, Home Therapy http://books.google.com/books?id=D-2_6hiyOocC, ISBN 039953279X, page 256:
- To accessorize the server, we arranged a grouping of mahogany candlesticks in a variety of interesting shapes, a small -colored vase, and a platter that incorporates the colors of the candlesticks as well as the of the vase.
adjective
- (context, of textiles) Unfinished; not fully processed; neither bleached nor dyed.
- The rolls of cloth sat on the factory floor waiting to be printed.
| | grenadine |
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noun
- A cordial syrup made from pomegranates, or a dilute drink made from such syrup.
| | grille |
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noun
- Alternative spelling of grill.
verb (no-verb-1, grill)
- To grill
| | grosgrain |
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noun grossgrain
- a silk fabric having narrow, horizontal ribs
| | gunny |
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noun
- A coarse heavy fabric made of jute or hemp.
- The Gibson.
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