Definition of "tussore" [tussore]

• Variant of tussah. (noun)

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• "But for once she had the presence of mind not to show her dismay, and she helped Mrs. Gresley to change the crewel-work antimacassars with their washed-out kittens swinging and playing leap-frog for the best tussore silk ones."
• "In the drawing-room were four persons, making eight in all for the picnic: Major Small, a fine, full-bearded figure of a man, with a stiff leg, in a tussore suit; Hatty Chessman, always the life and soul of any party, and — “Who do you think, my dear?” —"
• "Again, there was the insect house, where she lifted the blinds of the little cages, and marveled at the purple circles marked upon the rich tussore wings of some lately emerged and semi – conscious butterfly, or at caterpillars immobile like the knobbed twigs of a pale – skinned tree, or at slim green snakes stabbing the glass wall again and again with their flickering cleft tongues."