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Worsted

2 stages from English to English.

Today it means a smooth, compact wool yarn or fabric, tightly spun and woven
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Worstead
English · medieval
"an English village name"
a village in Norfolk, England, once a center of fine wool weaving
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worsted
English · 1300s
"a smooth, tightly spun wool yarn or fabric"
settled as the word for the smooth, tightly spun wool yarn from the village
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