lutestring
Americannoun
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a silk fabric of high sheen, formerly used in the manufacture of dresses.
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a narrow ribbon finished with a high gloss.
noun
Etymology
Origin of lutestring
1655–65; by folk etymology < French lustrine < Italian lustrino. See luster 1, -ine 1
Example Sentences
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Her white satin petticoat showed its rich lustre under a lutestring gown of palest rose brocaded with silver sprigs and looped with silver ribbon and pink satin roses.
From Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know by Asa Don Dickinson
Her features were finely moulded, and her shoulders, slipping out from azure lutestring, were like smooth handfuls of meringue.
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
It was a blue lutestring habit, taffety apron and handkerchief, with the most butiful little hat on the side of her head I ever saw.
From Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 by Lucinda Lee Orr
She was already dressed, in a black lutestring, her hair flat and natural.
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Alas! she saw herself in brocades and lutestring underskirts.
From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell
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