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How to pronounce sharkskin in English?

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Type of cloth, fabric, material, textile

Examples of sharkskin

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The traditional grating tool for wasabi is a sharkskin grater or samegawa oroshi.
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Several fixes for sharkskin exist, but none are entirely satisfactory for industry.
From the sciencedaily.com
Ruby, in his sharkskin suit, hawks strippers and gimmicks like a twister's exercise board.
From the time.com
Maybe it's the sharkskin suit that creates Don's debonair silhouette.
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Emile-Jacques Ruhlman refined neo-classicism, using sharkskin and ebony with ivory details.
From the independent.co.uk
Manufacturers often use anti-sharkskin additives, but until now it was unclear why they work.
From the sciencedaily.com
The knockoff, Albrecht notes, was finished in red lacquer instead of more expensive sharkskin.
From the usatoday.com
Despite the best attempts of researchers to make smooth materials, sharkskin remains a problem.
From the sciencedaily.com
Muddy Waters shouted about it in a sharkskin suit before the folkies persuaded him to put on overalls.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • A smooth crisp fabric
  • Sharkskin is a smooth worsted fabric with a soft texture and a two-toned woven appearance.
  • The skin of a shark; A shiny fabric made from synthetic fibers
  • A smooth, crisp, non-pattern fabric where the yarns in both the warp and filling are alternately light and colored creating a subtle two-tone appearance.
  • Is woven with warp and filling yarns of alternating white with black, brown or blue.
  • A term descriptively applied to wool fabrics woven in two and two right-hand twill, with a one and one color arrangement of yarns in the warp and filling. ...
  • A wool twill or basketweave with small woven designs.
  • The vegetable-tanned hide of a shark. Very rough.
  • Smooth wool in a twill weave that has a characteristic alternating black-and-white pattern for a grayed effect. The surface is said to resemble a skin of a shark. Commonly found in suitings.