The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TABARET
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More clues leading to the result TABARET
- Make lace to cover plain silk fabric
- Not dressed in rubbish fabric
- Time to replace Charlie as lead in musical – this is strong material
- Rubbish binding plain silk
- Outside a pub it’s time for new year festival material
- Short of clothes, wearing rubbish fabric
- Cheap material, has to show silk
- Bet a rat chewed upholstery fabric
- Shabby material covering plain silk
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "silk fabric" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case silk fabric = tabaret.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does TABARET mean?
TABARET noun- A strong fabric consisting of stripes of silk and satin.