threaden
adjEtymology From Middle English threden, thredyn (“made of thread”), equivalent to thread + -en (made of).
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Archaic Made of or woven from thread.
- threaden fillet1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Thy gloves they were made of a threaden stitch, Thou kept on thy hands to hide the itch; […]1811, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review:
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- That kindness plungeth him into a deeper bondage; the first was but a threaden snare, which he might break, but this is an infrangible chain of iron.1861, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams:
- Your feet in mouldy slippers, for your kibes, A felt of rug, and a thin threaden cloak, That scarce would cover your no-buttocks— […]1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):