Cross-over. World English Historical Dictionary

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[from verbal phrase to cross over.]

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  1.  Textile Fabrics. A fabric having the design running across from selvedge to selvedge, instead of along the length.

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1795.  Hull Advertiser, 23 May, 1/2. 1273 yards of … cotton cross-over.

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1860.  All Year Round, No. 53. 63. The barragons … quiltings, and cross-overs … for which Bolton was famous.

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  b.  Calico-printing. A bar or stripe of color printed across another color.

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1875.  Ure, Dict. Arts, IV. 326. Printed as a crossover, it darkens the indigo where it falls.

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  2.  A woman’s wrap (usually knitted, or of crochet-work) worn round the shoulders and crossed upon the breast.

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1868.  (The name was then in current use.)

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1884.  Mrs. Coote, Sure Harvest, vi. 69. Mrs. Timmins will never lose her rheumatism till she has a warm crossover to wear over that thin old dress.

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1886.  Besant, Childr. Gibeon, I. ii. She would wear a grey ulster or a red crossover.

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  3.  U.S. A connection between the up and down lines of a railway by which trains are shunted from one to the other.

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1884.  T. W. Higginson, in Harper’s Mag., July, 272/2. The incoming trains approach the city on the western track until they reach the ‘cross-over,’ which throws them to the eastern track.

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