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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A piece of dark, heavy cotton cloth that is run under another piece of cloth to be printed, serving to take up the color on the roller outside the width of the print cloth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, historical
Topics: business, manufacturing, media, printing, publishing, textiles
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Antonyms: none provided
History
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