repp
Britishnoun
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Bennet wore the same uniform today that he has each day of the trial thus far: dark suit, button-down shirt, repp tie, frowny expression.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2022
“I can wear a white poplin pajama shirt with navy piping and a repp tie and blazer and I feel fine.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2015
The only drama that we know takes place in such rooms: the hero sitting in the gentleman’s easy chair, of green repp: the heroine in the lady’s ditto, without arms—the chair, I mean.
From The Angel and the Author, and others by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
It was a large one, and was hung with light red repp embroidered with my initials.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
But, as I say, our ideas are changing—mahogany has gone, and repp curtains.
From Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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