Usually means: Silk fabric with irregular texture.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. shantung: Merriam-Webster
  2. Shantung, shantung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Shantung, shantung: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shantung: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shantung: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shantung, shantung: Wordnik
  7. Shantung, shantung: Wiktionary
  8. Shantung: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shantung: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Shantung: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shantung: Dictionary.com
  12. shantung: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Shantung (fabric), Shantung: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. shantung: Rhymezone
  15. shantung: FreeDictionary.org
  16. shantung: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. shantung: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Shantung: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shantung: Encyclopedia

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Textile (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Shantung)

noun:  A heavy fabric, with a rough surface, made from wild silk.
noun:  A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.
noun:  Alternative form of Shandong [A coastal province of China, part of the East China region. Capital: Jinan]

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