\▐bar-ә-▐thē-ә\ n [fr. Barathea] (1862) (1) A silk, rayon, or manufactured fiber necktie fabric with a broken rib weave and a characteristic pebbly appearance. (2) A fine, dress fabric with a silk warp and worsted filling, woven in a broken filling rib which completely covers the warp. (3) A smooth-faced worsted uniform cloth with an indistinct twilled basket weave of fine two-ply yarns.
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Gooch, J.W. (2011). Barathea. In: Gooch, J.W. (eds) Encyclopedic Dictionary of Polymers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6247-8_1050
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