jacquard
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1. a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | loom, |
| definition | : | a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile (noun.artifact) |
2. a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom (noun.artifact)
3. French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | artificer, discoverer, inventor, |
| definition | : | someone who is the first to think of or make something (noun.person) |
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