Tulle

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.

(2): ( n.) In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

A town of France, capital of the dep. of Corrèze, 115 m. NE. of Bordeaux; possesses a cathedral, episcopal palace, &c.; chief manufacture firearms; the fine silk fabric which takes its name from it is no longer manufactured here.

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