jaconet

American  

[jak-uh-net] / ˈdʒæk əˌnɛt /

noun

1. a cotton fabric of light weight, usually finished as cambric, lawn, organdy, voile, etc., used in the manufacture of clothing and bandages.

2. a cotton fabric with one glazed surface, used as a lining for the spines of books.

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jaconet British  

/ ˈdʒækənɪt /

noun

1. a light cotton fabric used for clothing, bandages, etc

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Etymology

Origin of jaconet

1760–70; < Urdu jagannāthī, named after Jagannāthpūrī in Odisha, India, where the cloth was first made

Example Sentences

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

Guarding with jaconet prevents the threads which lie in the middle of the signatures from pulling through the paper.

From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low

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 Gordon, Cora

Unity is going to wear her yellow jaconet, and I shall wear white.

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

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