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"ref": "c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], column 1:",
"text": "No? why art thou then exaſperate, thou idle, / immateriall skiene of Sleyd ſilke; […]",
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"ref": "1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 1, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:",
"text": "“How horribly unjust of you!” cried Lord Henry, tilting his hat back and looking up at the little clouds that, like ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.",
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"ref": "1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XV, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:",
"text": "The embroidery, which was a matter for thought, the design being difficult and the colours wanting consideration, brought lapses into the dialogue when she seemed to be engrossed in her skeins of silk, or, with head a little drawn back and eyes narrowed, considered the effect of the whole.",
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"ref": "2010, Jennifer Egan, “Goodbye, My Love”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:",
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"sense": "quantity of yarn",
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"code": "gl",
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"feminine"
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"code": "gl",
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
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"feminine"
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"word": "maraña"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Strang"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Gebinde"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kouvári",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
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"word": "κουβάρι"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "klōstḗr",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "κλωστήρ"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"word": "untai"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "scáinne"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "matassa"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"word": "gegelung"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"word": "pōkai"
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "madaissa"
},
{
"code": "pag",
"lang": "Pangasinan",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"word": "labey"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"word": "کلاف"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "motek"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "meada"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "madeixa"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "мото́к пря́жи"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "quantity of yarn",
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "madeja"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lina"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
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"word": "härva"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"word": "labay"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "jai",
"sense": "quantity of yarn",
"word": "ไจ"
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{
"code": "cy",
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"word": "cengl"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bǎrkotija",
"sense": "figuratively: tangle",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "бъркотия"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "figuratively: tangle",
"word": "vyyhti"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "figuratively: tangle",
"word": "kalut"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "figuratively: tangle",
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"word": "enredo"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "zoology: fish ovary membrane",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "membrane des oeufs"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
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"code": "de",
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"masculine"
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"glosses": [
"To wind or weave into a skein."
],
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"weave"
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