OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4168

seam

/siːm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cosedura • costura
A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one han…
sutura
A suture.
veta
A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
He even roused himself to go to the mines once more: […]. He sat there, crippled, in a tub, with the under-ground manager showing him the seam with a powerful torch.
cicatriz
A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
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