ratteen
Americannoun
noun
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When he was figuring at Boswell's dinner in Old Bond Street in the "ratteen suit lined with satin, and bloom-coloured silk breeches," the clothes belonged to his tailor, and remained unpaid till his death.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
We'll rig from Meath Street Egypt's haughty queen And Antony shall court her in ratteen.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst
Rattinet, rat-ti-net′, n. a thin variety of ratteen.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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