(n.) Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.
Example Sentences:
(1) You need a little moleskine, to write rude ideas... Mel No, I’ve just started recycling them.
(2) The method of choice, microfoam tape, moleskin, or Velcro, depends on the patient's ability to manage the material.
(3) They have the same faces and a lot of moleskin fur – not exactly first class, in other words, but still chic – with arrogant legs and a great waft of perfume about them.” Keun was too much for the Nazis; she fled to Ostend where she took Joseph Roth for her lover.
(4) Malcolm Fraser, an early adopter of this look, did it best: moleskin pants, chambray shirt with sleeves rolled to the elbows, brown leather belt and RM Williams boots.
(5) The gait patterns were recorded on white paper by a method which involved the application of moleskin and ink to the soles of the subjects' shoes.
(6) Just how much stripped pine, Moleskine journals and Boden skirts can the average Chinese peasant afford?
Twill
Definition:
(v. i.) To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
(v. t.) An appearance of diagonal lines or ribs produced in textile fabrics by causing the weft threads to pass over one and under two, or over one and under three or more, warp threads, instead of over one and under the next in regular succession, as in plain weaving.
(v. t.) A fabric women with a twill.
(v. t.) A quill, or spool, for yarn.
Example Sentences:
(1) I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
(2) "If United do get Louis van Gaal, twill be like getting a hybrid of Guardiola and Mourinho - Guardiola's methodology and Mourinho's arrogance and occasional (everytime) madness."
(3) Heavier-weight fabrics, such as denim and twill, are better barriers.
(4) The fabrics were 4.8-ox twill weave Nomex aramide, 4.5-oz stabilized twill weave polybenzimidazole, 4.8-oz plain weave experimental high-temperature polymer (HT4), and 4.8-oz plain weave Nomex aramide (New Weave Nomex or NWN).
(5) She's also making chocolate caramel twills which she will fill with truffles.
(6) The twill fabric was a better barrier to transmission than the plain fabrics.