nainsook
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of nainsook
1780–90; < Urdu, Hindi nainsukh, equivalent to nain the eye + sukh pleasure
Vocabulary lists containing nainsook
Example Sentences
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All that summer her quick fingers were busy with fine white flannel and finer white nainsook, setting tiny stitches in small garments.
From Home Fires in France by Canfield, Dorothy
Slips are usually made of some very soft material such as nainsook, batiste, pearline, or sheer lawn cloth.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
During the summer months nainsook caps or other thin materials are to be preferred to the heavy crocheted caps that are sometimes worn by babies.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
"I admit the cigars are not what he's accustomed to, but I'd like to meet the fence that'll take a nainsook pinafore and a couple of bibs."
From Berry And Co. by Yates, Dornford
She had never known what it was to take a ten-dollar bill from a pile, and spend it with luxurious recklessness in white flannelette and nainsook and shirting and various colored calicoes for the children.
From God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Chapman, Ethel M.
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