jacquard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)
noun a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
noun a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics

Eponym, from Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom.

What is a spinning jenny?--a Jacquard loom? — Commercial Geography: A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
And our wool that was sold in Rome in the time of Juvenal and our flax and our damask from the looms of Antrim and our Limerick lace, our tanneries and our white flint glass down there by Ballybough and our Huguenot poplin that we have since Jacquard de Lyon and our woven silk and our Foxford tweeds and ivory raised point from the Carmelite convent in New Ross, nothing like it in the whole wide world. — Ulysses, James Joyce

Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard

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