India silk
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of India silk
First recorded in 1750–60
Example Sentences
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Royal Silk Black Silk Heart Boxers 2.0 Luxurious, lightweight, 100% India silk boxers emblazoned with red hearts ensure he’ll feel your love underneath it all.
From Seattle Times
The bounty of empire was landing on the docks — tea from India, silk from China, cotton from the American South.
From New York Times
Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.
From Literature
The sailors of the Hornet were consequently very much elated with the prospect of so rich a prize, declaring that they would carpet the berth deck with India silk, and murmuring that the Peacock sailed so much faster, as she would have the first chance at the plunder.
From Project Gutenberg
Half reclining on a Turkish divan, enveloped in a long robe of India silk, he was smoking a narghile in an attitude of Oriental abandon, with his eyes fixed upon his garden.
From Project Gutenberg
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