tarlatan

[tahr-luh-tn, -tuhn]

noun

1. a thin, plain-weave, open-mesh cotton fabric finished with stiffening agents and sometimes glazed.

tarlatan

/ ˈtɑːlətən /

noun

1. an open-weave cotton fabric, used for stiffening garments

Word History and Origins

Origin of tarlatan¹

First recorded in 1720–30; from French tarlatane, dissimilated variant of tarnatane kind of cloth originally imported from India; further origin unknown

Word History and Origins

Origin of tarlatan¹

C18: from French tarlatane, variant of tarnatane type of muslin, perhaps of Indian origin

Example Sentences

So out came the tarlatan, looking older, limper, and shabbier than ever beside Sallie’s crisp new one.

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It is at this time in the life of the houses and their dwellers that Mary and I collect them and bring them home and put them into little tarlatan bags.

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There will often come out of one of the galls that Mary and I have in a tarlatan bag, not one kind of insect, but several kinds, and only one of these kinds is the regular proper house-owner.

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It did not wear the traditional gray tarlatan armor of Hamlet's father, the only ghost with whom I am well acquainted; this spectre was clad in substantial deer-skin garments, and carried a gun and loaded game-bag.

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I rather liked myself in my home-made white tarlatan, feeling very much dressed in my first low neck.

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