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  • n  closely twisted hard cord used for the lashes of whips
  • n  a strong worsted or cotton fabric with a diagonal rib

  • The traditional instrument of punishment was the cat-o'-nine-tails, nine lashes of whipcord, each about in.
  • It was Commissioner Morgenthau's idea to put these individuals into uniformsbrown whipcord cut like the State Policemen's, with a blue band around their capsand to send .
  • A one-eyed man in riding boots and breeches and a dark whipcord tunic looked down on the sparkling sea from a huge plane.
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    Recommended Of the glut of horror movies produced during the early-1970s, director Pete Walker's were among the most sadistic, crass exploitation movies rife with gratuitous nudity and violence. The Flesh and Blood Show (1972) has plenty of the former but is surprisingly restrained in terms of the latter, and lacks the sadism prevalent in Walker-directed movies like House of Whipcord (1974) and ...
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