Associations to the word «Jacquard»

Wiktionary

JACQUARD, noun. Fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
JACQUARD, noun. Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.
JACQUARD, noun. A jacquard loom.

Dictionary definition

JACQUARD, noun. French inventor of the Jacquard loom that could automatically weave complicated patterns (1752-1834).
JACQUARD, noun. A highly figured fabric woven on a Jacquard loom.
JACQUARD, noun. A loom with an attachment for forming openings for the passage of the shuttle between the warp threads; used in weaving figured fabrics.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats