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Off-White showed jeans with a shredded jeans with a green weft.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2024 This is accomplished when the weft thread goes over a warp thread and then under two warp threads.—Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Aug. 2024 Your natural hair is sectioned into smaller parts and pressed in between two wefts of hair extensions.—Jazmine Boutte, StyleCaster, 7 Oct. 2024 Wig and weave terminologies such as 360, weft, virgin, Remy, glueless, or French lace can have even the most chronically online person's head spinning.—Kedean Smith, refinery29.com, 27 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for weft
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Norse veptr weft, Old English wefan to weave — more at weave
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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The first known use of weft was
before the 12th century
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