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Definition of Cacoons
1. cacoon [n] - See also: cacoon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cacoons
Literary usage of Cacoons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India by Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India (1836)
"These last breeders sell the cacoons, by the weight, to those who draw the ...
This is performed in the following manner ; first, the cacoons ought to be ..."
2. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1828)
"1st, the fact above stated is invariably found to exist in the south of France,
even though the worms forming the different coloured cacoons may have sprung ..."
3. The London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1828)
"1st, the fact above stated is invariably found to exist in the south of France,
even though the worms forming the different coloured cacoons may have sprung ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings, First Governor by George Robert Gleig (1841)
"From the management of treaties with crowned heads to the preparation of silk
thread, and the purchase of cacoons, there was nothing which eluded the ..."
5. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1816)
"On the following day after a little exposure to the sun, the cacoons are to ...
on the sixth day they will be fit for winding off— the cacoons that are to ..."
6. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1907)
"Rept. of premiums on silk cacoons, etc., at ann. fair at Albany, (v. ... Rept.
on silk and cacoons at state fair, Rochester with premiums awarded, (v. ..."
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