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Jacquard

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Jacquarda. 
     Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.  [1913 Webster]
Jacquard apparatus or Jacquard arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure. -- Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus. -- Jacquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Jacquard, n.
1 an apparatus with perforated cards, fitted to a loom to facilitate the weaving of figured fabrics.
2 (in full Jacquard loom) a loom fitted with this.
3 a fabric or article made with this, with an intricate variegated pattern.

Etymology
J. M. Jacquard, Fr. inventor d. 1834

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