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A kind of stuff having a sort of velvet nap or shag on one side, composed regularly of a woof of a single woollen thread and a double warp; the one wool, of two threads twisted, the other goats' or camels' hair. Some plushes in imitation of the foregoing are made of other materials.
 
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