1 [C,U] any type of fabric made by weaving or knitting:
a factory producing a range of textiles * the textile industry * a textile mill / designer
2 (textiles) [pl.] the industry that makes fabric:
He got a job in textiles.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for textile is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is textile a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, textile is tagged as noun.
Does textile appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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