dupion

From French doupion, Italian doppione, from doppio (“double”), Latin duplus. See double, and compare doubloon.

dupion (countable and uncountable, plural dupions)

1. A double cocoon, made by two silkworms.
2. The silk from a double cocoon.

   Synonym: doupion

• “dupion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Nupoid, unipod