jaconet
Americannoun
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a cotton fabric of light weight, usually finished as cambric, lawn, organdy, voile, etc., used in the manufacture of clothing and bandages.
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a cotton fabric with one glazed surface, used as a lining for the spines of books.
noun
Etymology
Origin of jaconet
1760–70; < Urdu jagannāthī, named after Jagannāthpūrī in Odisha, India, where the cloth was first made
Example Sentences
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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 "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
It is of white jaconet muslin, trimmed with lace and rows of pink ribbon of different widths.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
Under his khaki great-coat and about a foot longer he wore a white jaconet hospital coat.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
The English cloth called jaconet is the best for this purpose.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
Make end papers and fly-leaves of 60-pound kraft paper or 80-pound manila, guarded with jaconet on one side of the sheet.
From Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey
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