| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  tw l |
| NOUN: | 1. A fabric with diagonal parallel ribs. 2. The weave used to produce such a fabric. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: twilled, twill·ing, twills
To weave (cloth) so as to produce a pattern of diagonal parallel ribs. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English twile, from Old English twil c, woven of double thread. See dwo- in Appendix I.
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