Lexicographical Neighbors of Dupions
Literary usage of Dupions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and (1823)
"You must change the water in your bason four times a day for your dupions and
choquette, and twice only for good cocoons when you wind fine silk ; but if ..."
2. The American Silk Growers Guide: Or, The Art of Raising the Mulberry and by William Kenrick (1839)
"But the space being thus reduced to an inch, two silkworms will seldom or never
unite to form dupions, as they find not sufficient space. ..."
3. Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts: In All the Useful and Domestic Arts by Colin MacKenzie (1854)
"The dupions, or double ones. 3d. The firmest of those which are to be reeled.
4th. Those of a looser texture. II. Choosing the cocoons far the production of ..."
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