nankin
- a variation of nankeen.
Example Sentences
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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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence
He was dressed in a short jacket of inferior nankin.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
There were some nankin ones made for every day.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
She, if Mary Squires she was, told Mrs. Hopkins that they 'sold hardware'; in fact they sold soft ware, smuggled nankin and other stuffs.
From Historical Mysteries by Lang, Andrew
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 Garnett, Constance
