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herring |
herring gull |
herring hog |
herring salad |
herring-like |
herringbone
| herringbone pattern
| herrnhuter
| hers
| hersal
| herschel
herringbone
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun herringbone has 2 senses
- herringbone(n = noun.artifact) Array - a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern; Array is a kind of cloth, fabric, material, textile
- herringbone(n = noun.artifact) herringbone pattern - a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery; Array is a kind of design, figure, pattern
CIDE DICTIONARY
herringbone, a.
Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. [1913 Webster]
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