jacquard

jacquard has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• a.. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.
• n.. a loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics
• n.. a highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom
• n.. French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834)