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What is a noil?

What is a noil? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A short fibre left over from combing wool or spinning silk during the preparation of textile yarns. Sometimes it is referred to as 'Raw Silk', although this is somewhat of a misnomer.
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As a result of treating hemp and flax-hackling noil with the emollients preparation Pektochem, the technical fibre bundles undergo separation into smaller units.
Fabrics that are often made from silk include charmeuse, habutai, chiffon, taffeta, crepe de chine, dupioni, noil, tussah, and shantung, among others.
Shayla Noil and Justice West led the Generals with 11 points each.
Completing the coverage will be two land based cabled cameras positioned at vantage points on Noil h and South Head.
Some of the noil collected by the combing process is composed of a large percentage of short mohair.
The silk noil was slightly nubby with random flecks in an off-white colour.

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