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verka.

broadcloth; a dense but (relatively) thin, short-pile, fairly smooth-faced woolen fabric woven of carded yarn, either plain-woven or twilled and then fulled; more fine, thin and valued than wadmal (sarka)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʋerkɑ/[ˈʋe̞rkɑ̝]
  1. broadcloth; a dense but (relatively) thin, short-pile, fairly smooth-faced woolen fabric woven of carded yarn, either plain-woven or twilled and then fulled; more fine, thin and valued than wadmal (sarka)

  2. synonym of boiji (“baize”)

  3. synonym of boiji (“baize”) cloth, felt, baize, green baize

Where this word comes from

From Proto-Finnic *vërka, probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *werką (“rope, cord”).

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