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Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 11th Ed.: Revision history

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22 October 2025

  • curprev 22:2322:23, 22 October 2025 YTBMose57500 talk contribs 6,071 bytes +6,071 Created page with "<br>Primarily, nap is the raised (fuzzy) floor on sure sorts of cloth, corresponding to velvet or moleskin. Nap can refer moreover to other surfaces that look just like the surface of a napped cloth, such as the surface of a felt or beaver hat. Starting around the 14th century, the word referred initially to the roughness of woven cloth before it was sheared. When cloth, especially woollen cloth, is woven, the surface of the cloth isn't clean, and this roughness is the n..."