nankeen
noun
a firm, durable, yellow or buff fabric, formerly made from a natural-colored Chinese cotton.
nankin
-
a variation of
nankeen.
Example Sentences
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His father was also a man of incredible good-nature, always wore a long nankin coat, and whatever was said to him he responded with a smile.
From The Jew and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
The little green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to those iron bars, without being startled or thrown into confusion by their funereal contact.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Mrs. Pimble and Mrs. Lawson sat on their respective piazzas, in nankin pants and open waistcoats, and flapped great peacocks' tails to and fro, to cool their feverish, perspiring brows.
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
A pailful of lye, with a piece of copperas half as big as a hen's egg boiled in it, will color a fine nankin color, which will never wash out.
From The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child
If one opened it, one found one's self in a little chamber about six feet square, tiled, well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green flowers, at fifteen sous the roll.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
