dimity
noun
a thin cotton fabric, white, dyed, or printed, woven with a stripe or check of heavier yarn.
dimities
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pluralof dimity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Cloth Finishing establishment bleaches, starches, and calenders dimities, muslins, percales, and shirtings, and folds and wraps them for shipping.
From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Sue Ainslie Clark
We were donning our dimities about this time daily,” recalled Louise, with a well meaning sigh.
From The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong Peg of Tamarack Hills by Lillian Garis
It contains a voluminous list of useful domestic goods, presenting the most enormous bargains, in the way of sheetings, shirtings, flannels, diapers, damasks, dimities, table-cloths, &c. &c.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 by William Chambers
She showed Morag that in all the shifts and dimities she washed for her, a hole came just above where her heart would be.
From The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum
As early as 1643 the author of New England's First Fruits wrote: "They are making linens, fustians, dimities, and look immediately to woollens from their own sheep."
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
