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This helps the weft yarns lay flat, giving fabrics that are distressed and destroyed a cleaner look.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Apr. 2025 It’s manufactured using the unique warp knit and weft insert technology developed by Chargeurs PCC’s R&D teams at its historic Lainière de Picardie production site in France.—Andrea Onate, WWD, 10 Feb. 2025 The weaving, in which the weft, the horizontal structure, is inserted into the fabric’s vertical structure, the warp, is conducted in the world’s quietest weaving room.—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2025 As Merritt worked away, sewing a blonde weft under the top layers of Pope’s hair, Pope asked Brown an innocuous question — to hand her something nearby.—Ian Frisch, Curbed, 9 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for weft
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Norse veptr weft, Old English wefan to weave — more at weave
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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The first known use of weft was
before the 12th century
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