An artificial textile fibre made from a polyester, used to make light, crease-resistant clothing, bed linen, and sails.
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He wore a navy blazer with gilt buttons, smooth tubes of grey terylene trousers, a red and blue striped tie.
This is the type of reaction used to form polyesters such as terylene and nylon.
It's also known as polyester, Dacron and terylene.
Developments in long-chain polymer chemistry during the middle decades of the 20th cent. gave rise to many products: polythene, nylon, and terylene.
Plaited terylene line is nice to hold on to, especially when you need to drag yourself back down to the hook to disengage it, or use it for a bit of underwater rock-climbing.
Splash out for terylene and enjoy the difference between that and rough polypropylene.
Origin
1940s: formed by inversion of (polyeth)ylene ter(ephthalate).