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  1. From `velvet' and `crochet' a system of hooks
  2. and eyes for fastening clothing, developed by
  3. Swiss inventor Georges de Mestral (1902-90)
  4. after studying why burrs stuck to his
  5. trousers and noting that they were made of
  6. thousands of tiny hooks.
  7.