zephyr worsted

noun

1. lightweight worsted yarn.

Word History and Origins

Origin of zephyr worsted¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Fine worsted for fancyÏwork; zephyr worsted; Ð called also Berlin wool.

From Project Gutenberg

It is knitted with two threads, one of white and the other of chinchilla zephyr worsted, and wooden needles, crosswise, in rounds going back and forth.

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Every white stripe you worked with zephyr worsted in briar stitch or herring-bone or feather stitch.

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Buy a strip a foot long and six inches wide, and embroider it all over in alternate lines of cross and single stitching, using single zephyr worsted, blue or rose-colored.

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And May, singing cheerily, cleaned, and swept and rubbed, and polished, and touched up things a little here and there, until the room was arranged with exquisite taste and neatness; then took her work-basket, in which lay a variety of little infant's socks, and fine fleecy under-garments, knit of zephyr worsted, which looked so pure and soft that even she touched them daintily, as she lifted them out to find her needles, and sat down by the fire.

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