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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Jac·quard a. Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834.
 Jacquard apparatus or Jacquard arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for producing the required figure.
 Jacquard card, one of the perforated cards of a Jacquard apparatus.
 Jacquard loom, a loom with Jacquard apparatus.
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