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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I am told you are doing very well with your piqués and dimities....
From More Tales by Polish Authors by Various
And it was gay with chintz and dimities, while against my windows a bourginvilla vine whispered in the wind.
From Mavis of Green Hill by Faith Baldwin
Thomas Johns was a linen draper, sold silks, satinets, linen, and dimities, at his establishment in the Provinces, and was also a politician, and "went on" for the part of magistrate, occasionally.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
Iron colored clothes—lawns, dimities, percales, chambrays, etc.—on the wrong side, with an iron not too hot, otherwise the color is apt to be injured.
From The Complete Home by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin
Her bonnet is the firmament, The universe her shoe, The stars the trinkets at her belt, Her dimities of blue.
From Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson
