Associations to the word «Filature»

Wiktionary

FILATURE, noun. The process of drawing fibres into threads, especially the process of reeling raw silk from cocoons.
FILATURE, noun. A spool or bobbin used for the above.
FILATURE, noun. A place where silk is reeled onto spools.

Dictionary definition

FILATURE, noun. A bobbin used in spinning silk into thread.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope