A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
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a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering v
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an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles n a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering v stiffen with starch
