The silk industry in America.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781425531768
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: LARDNER, and some other philological writers, tells us that Se, or, as it was corruptly pronounced, Ser, was the original name of silk in Eastern Asia; and that hence, the people who first produced silk were called Seres; whence, after the silk fabrics became known to the Greeks, came the Greek word serikon, and the Latin sericum, and by the substitution in the languages of Western Europe of l for r-a very common, and almost universal practice-sericum became selicum, selic, and at last silk.