Honan
noun
Honan
American
[hoh-nan, hœ-nahn]
/ ˈhoʊˈnæn, ˈhœˈnɑn /
noun
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Wade-Giles. Henan.
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(usually lowercase)
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a pongee fabric made from the filaments of the wild silkworm.
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a lustrous fabric simulating pongee and woven from fibers other than silk.
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Honan
1
British
/ ˈhəʊˈnæn /
noun
honan
2
British
/ ˈhəʊˈnæn /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Honan
First recorded in 1880–85; named after Honan, where the fabric was first manufactued
Example Sentences
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Katie Honan, a reporter with The City, accepted the chips after Greco insisted, despite Honan initially declining, only to discover inside a red envelope containing at least one $100 bill and several $20s.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2025
“Glass, and the other things like it, won’t always be ugly and awkward,” Mat Honan wrote in Wired in 2013, in a retrospective of a year of wearing the device.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2024
Democratic polling and strategy group Honan Strategy Group is meanwhile trying to develop an AI survey bot.
From Reuters ● May 30, 2023
David Honan, chief of the campus police department, declined repeated requests to be interviewed for this article.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2021
Honan, which ripens later, has been one of my best grafted trees.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 by Northern Nut Growers Association
Honan, self, is used with possessive pronouns as in English: ow honan, myself; dha honan, thyself, &c.
From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry
He had already won Lady Spilsbury's heart by recommending to her the honan tcha, or Tartar tea, which enables the Tartars to digest raw flesh, and tinges water of a red colour.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria
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