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Spell check of selvage
Correct spelling: selvage
Synonyms:
border, rim, skirting, hem, selvedge.
Examples of usage:
1) Tyburn turnpike, of nefarious memory, still stood at the junction of Oxford Road and the Edgeware Road, and between the latter and Bayswater open fields traversed by the canal, with here and there an isolated cottage dotted about them, stretched on one side of the high- road; and on the other, the untidy, shaggy, ravelled- looking selvage of Hyde Park; not trimmed with shady walks and flower borders and smooth grass and bright iron railing as now, but as forbidding in its neglected aspect as the desolate stretch of uninclosed waste on the opposite side. - "Records of a Girlhood", Frances Ann Kemble.
2) Table linen must be smoothed over on the wrong side till partially dry, and then ironed rapidly, with good hot irons and strong pressure on the right side, lengthwise and parallel with the selvage, until dry. - "The Complete Home", Various.
3) My spirit is long since evaporated; I am like one of your own shreds, a mere selvage. - "Stories by English Authors: Ireland", Various.