lutestring

noun3

1. •
   The string of a lute.

   • Seventeen shillings went on replacement lutestrings for Elizabeth herself. Her greatest pleasures were playing her lute or virginals, reading or sewing. — 2011
2. •
   A type of moth with a band-like marking across the forewing, of the former taxonomic family Thyatiridae, also, the band-like marking.

   • There are six hook-tips and 10 in the lutestring group, which was formerly treated as a separate family, Thyatiridae. — 2015
3. •
   (no longer used) A plain, stout, lustrous silk, used for ladies' dresses and for ribbon.

   • There goes Mrs. Roundabout, I mean the fat lady in the lutestring trollopee. Betvveen you and I, she is but a cutler's vvife. See hovv she's dressed, as fine as hands and pins can make her […] — 1759