jacquard

noun

A fabric with an intricately woven pattern.

noun

A special loom or the method employed in the weaving of a figured fabric.

noun

An abbreviation of Jacquard loom or Jacquard attachment (which see, under loom).

adjective

Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.

adjective

a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure.

adjective

one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus.

adjective

a loom with Jacquard apparatus.

noun

Fabric woven on a jacquard loom.

noun

Fabric resembling a jacquard, but woven by a different process.