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Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Preferred Term

cord

Details

Long, slender, flexible, roughly cylindrical construction of fibrous material, usually made of several strands twisted together. Cord is typically made from a type of bast fiber such as cotton, jute, flax, ramie, hemp, sisal, olona, gravata, agel, widuri, caraguata, or others.

Variations

cord (fiber product)

cords

corde

cordes

cuerda

cordón

Fädelschnur

Narrower Terms

string

rope

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