Definition of "tusser" []

• A kind of silk cloth woven from tusser-silk. (noun)
• A dress or garment of tussersilk. (noun)
• Same as tusser-silk. (noun)
• An oak-feeding silkworm, Antheræa mylitta, furnishing a silk of great strength, but of coarse quality and hard to reel. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "What the crap these guys are writing huh?? reply tusser"
• "Wonderful tusser silk draperies fell about her, with ink-spots on the sleeves; her hair was magnificent."
• "a cigar, disclosing himself a bald Armenian in tusser silk trousers and"