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A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; - commonly in the

A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy; - commonly in the

A transient reddening of the face that may be due to fever, certain drugs, exertion, stress, or a disease process.

A glow of red, as in the face; as, the disease is characterized by frequent flushings of the face; in weaving, a thread which, in the process of twilling, spans several threads of the warp without intersection; a floating; a kind of stout woollen cloth; "Some stout skipper paces his deck in a suit of flushing."-C. Reade.