Smooth cotton fabric
The crossword clue "Smooth cotton fabric" is answered by LISLE, a 5-letter entry. Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
LISLE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the LISLE answer page.
Used 6 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for LISLE
Every other clue in this collection answered by LISLE, most used first.
- Cotton thread - used 75 times, most recently in 2025
- Hosiery thread - used 34 times, most recently in 2025
- Strong cotton thread - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
- Fine cotton thread - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
- Thread - used 23 times, most recently in 1997
- Fine thread - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Stocking material - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Hosiery material - used 10 times, most recently in 2018
- Kind of thread. - used 10 times, most recently in 1990
- Strong thread - used 10 times, most recently in 2016
- Twisted thread - used 9 times, most recently in 2010
- Tightly twisted thread - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Cotton fabric - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Durable cotton thread - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Hard-twisted cotton thread - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
- Hosiery fabric - used 7 times, most recently in 2021
- Extra-strong cotton thread - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
- Glove fabric - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Tightly twisted cotton thread - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Smooth transition - SEGUE, used 107 times
- Twilled fabric - SERGE, used 97 times
- Glossy fabric - SATIN, used 94 times
- Jeans fabric - DENIM, used 76 times
- Synthetic fabric - ORLON, used 65 times
- Suit fabric - SERGE, used 60 times
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