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What is a lutestring?

What is a lutestring? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (archaic) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.
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Look 'ee, now, at this lutestring piece I got to Penzance church-town.
So that those two poor little bits of lutestring ribbon were the only outward signs of new bereavement.
She sent me home a lutestring nightgown of the sweetest sea-green only yesterday.
This was all of a piece with his rage at lutestring the day before.
He sang in the choir and I had a white dress and a bonnet trimmed with lutestring ribbon.
Now a new singer, and anon a new colour in lutestring, or a new style of headdress, or a new game at cards.

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