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
End papers and fly-leaves must be guarded with jaconet, as described in specifications for fiction and juvenile books, page 93.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
If book is not oversewed the first and last sections must be guarded with jaconet.
From Library Bookbinding by Bailey, Arthur Low
The end paper makes a section in itself, which, like all others, is taken up in the sewing—it has previously been attached to the third section by means of strips of jaconet.
From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul
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
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