duvetyn
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of duvetyn
1910–15; < French duvetine, equivalent to duvet down ( duvet ) + -ine -ine 2
Example Sentences
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Serge, cloth, duvetyn, Canton crêpe, pongee, chiffon, and georgette are appropriate but one should avoid velvets and most fur trimmings.
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Underneath her smock of duvetyn, the color of a ripe horse-chestnut, she wore bloomers and stockings rolled down under her knees,—as everybody could see.
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Reason: the informal shirt waist has been supplanted by blouses of stiff velvet, chenille, soft duvetyn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neither he nor Robin saw the incongruous picture they made; she in her warm suit of softest duvetyn and rich with fur, he in his working clothes, swinging a dinner pail in one hand and in the other balancing her knobby packages.
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Select a perfectly sweet Rose du Barri duvetyn lined gris fonc�.
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