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SCOURED WOOL

Specialty Definition: SCOURED WOOL

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Industry

Wool entirely degreased by washing with hot water and soap or other detergents or with alkaline solutions. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: SCOURED WOOL

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Freshly scoured wool entering drying chamber at wool scouring plant. San Marcos, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: SCOURED WOOL

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

During a further period of thirty months after the expiration of the first six months, this provision shall continue to be applied exclusively with regard to products which, being comprised in Section A of the First Category of the German Customs Tariff of December 25, 1902, enjoyed at the above-mentioned date (July 31, 1914) rates conventionalised by treaties with the Allied and Associated Powers, with the addition of all kinds of wine and vegetable oils, of artificial silk and of washed or scoured wool whether or not they were the subject of special conventions before July 31, 1914. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: SCOURED WOOL

Language Translations for "SCOURED WOOL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

vasket uld (washed wool), fabriksvasket uld, affedtet uld, affedted uld/vasket uld. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

volledig gewassen wol, ontvette wol. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pesty villa (washed wool). (various references)

   

French

  

laine lavée fond, laine lavée chaud, laine lavée, laine dégraissée. (various references)

   

German

  

Waschwolle, reingewaschene Wolle, gewaschene Wolle (washed wool). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαλλί καθαρισμένο σε βάθος, μαλλί πλυμένο, μαλλί που έχει πλυθεί εντελώς, απολιπανθέν μαλλί. (various references)

   

Italian

  

lana sgrassata, lana pulita a fondo, lana lavata a fondo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ouredscay oolway

   

Portuguese

  

lã lavada a fundo, lá lavada a fundo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

lana lavada a fondo, lana lavada (washed wool), lana desengrasada. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tvättad ull. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SCOURED WOOL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-l-o-o-o-r-s-u-w"

-2 letters: decolours, woodlores.

-3 letters: closured, clowders, coloreds, coloured, decolors, decolour, decorous, dolorous, rosewood, sourwood, woodlore.

-4 letters: closure, cloured, clowder, colored, colours, colures, coolers, coursed, creosol, curdles, curlews, decolor, dewools, dolours, odorous, scolder, scoured, scowder, scowled, scowler, sourced, weldors, woolers.

-5 letters: ceorls, cerous, closed, closer, clouds, clours, coders, colder, coleus, colors, colour, colure, cooers, cooled, cooler.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Quotations: Historic
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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