nun's veiling

American  

noun

1. a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of nun's veiling

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

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nun's veiling

There was a shattered Elswick bicycle, about sixteen yards and a half of nun's veiling, and fifty-three tortoise-shell side-combs.

From The War of the Wenuses by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

In warm weather lighter materials can be worn—as, pique, nun's veiling, or white lawn.

From The Book of Good Manners; a Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions by Walter Cox Green

Clad in draperies of soft nun's veiling Jennie Montgomery was, if not pretty, quite interesting, and her bright, fresh face was refreshing as the air of her native vales.

From Marguerite Verne by Rebecca Agatha Armour

To this list of woolen goods may be added the crape cloth with crinkled, rough surface, nun's veiling, flannel which is woven in a variety of ways, broadcloth, wool canvas, and poplins.

From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson

And you would better buy a black veil; not crape, it is too perishable; get nun's veiling, and—" "Nun's veilin'?

From Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson