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raw silk

noun

Definitions

  1. Silk that has not been processed to remove sericin.

    • In settling the price to be paid for the waste, the owner and the throwster must agree on a fair value for the raw silk.
    • The rawsilk imports to India increased from 7,896 tons in 2001, to 10,506 tons in 2002, which is a 33% increase in one year.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for raw silk. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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