English

Noun

tussore ‎(plural tussores)

1. Alternative form of tussar
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 5:

     now and then the fantastic shadows of birds of flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect [...].

   • 2001, The Plum in the Golden Vase, or Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Two: The Rivals, translated by David Tod Roy, Princeton University Press, pp. 657-8,

     The next day, when Hsi-men Ch’ing returned from the yamen, he had the chests opened up and took out a bolt of block printed tussore fabric from the Imperial Silk Manufactory in the south.

Anagrams

• estrous, oestrus, ousters, sourest, souters, toruses, tousers