Jacquard Loom, a loom with an apparatus for weaving figures in textiles, such as silks, muslins, and carpets, which was the invention of an ingenious Frenchman, born in Lyons, of the name of Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752‒1834).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Jacotot, Jean Joseph * Jacquerie