piña cloth

American  

noun

1. a fine, sheer fabric of pineapple-leaf fiber, used especially for lingerie.

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piña cloth British  

/ ˈpiːnjə /

noun

1. a fine fabric made from the fibres of the pineapple leaf

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Etymology

Origin of piña cloth

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Dressed in fine pina cloth shirt.

From Project Gutenberg

The next in the procession was Santa Maria Magdalena, a most beautiful image with an abundant growth of hair, a handkerchief of embroidered piña cloth between her ring-covered fingers, and wearing a dress of silk adorned with gold-leaf.

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They do the most cobweb-like drawn work, and on this are wrought roses, lilies, and butterflies with outspread wings that look as if they had just lighted down to sip the nectar from the blossoms; these very fine embroideries are done on the piña cloth.

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It is woven from the very thin fibers drawn from pineapple leaves, and is called Pina cloth, or Pina linen.”

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Not only do the Spanish women come out in their black mantillas, but the Filipino belles and the mestiza, girls, in their stiff dresses of josé and piña cloth.

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