Tussore

Full definition of tussore

Noun

1. The silk woven from the cocoons of wild silkworms feeding on mountain shrubs. Also attributive.
• 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 ....

Anagrams

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