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
Under dress of jaconet muslin, trimmed with lace or embroidery.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
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 Bailey, Arthur Low
Sometimes it looked like long cloth; at others like mull muslin or jaconet; oftenest it was a species of thick cotton net.
From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence
First and last sections must be guarded with jaconet.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
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