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Definition of Teaselled
1. teasel [v] - See also: teasel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teaselled
Literary usage of Teaselled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nineveh and Its Palaces: The Discoveries of Botta and Layard, Applied to the by Joseph Bonomi (1857)
"ES8 DIVINITY bottom of which is ornamented with a teaselled fringe. At the back,
and depending from his waist to his ankle, is a succession of five ..."
2. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1871)
"It is now in quite a rough state, and to improve the surface it has to be "
teaselled." Teasels are the flower-heads of a plant something like a thistle, ..."
3. Webster's High School Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster (1892)
"... raising a nap on woolen cloth ; any contrivance for raising nap on cloth, —vl [TEA-
BELED (-z'ld) or teaselled ..."
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