longcloth
Americannoun
noun
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a fine plain-weave cotton cloth made in long strips
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a light soft muslin
Etymology
Origin of longcloth
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From beneath a black quilted dressing-gown peeped with virtuous pride the longcloth of a nightdress of Victorian severity.
From Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins
The material was also invariably of a kind to wear, a fine linen or a closely woven English longcloth.
From Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
An honest hosier and draper, serge and longcloth warehouseman"—he groaned from rib to rib—"at the sign of the Gartered Kitten in the loyal town of Dulverton.
From Lorna Doone A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
The table, and on it Miss Sibson's squat workbox and a pile of longcloth, was between them.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
Gaudy shawls cover white cotton jackets; and skirts of bright, showy longcloth suggest the parrot or the cockatoo.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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