nainsook
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of nainsook
1780–90; < Urdu, Hindi nainsukh, equivalent to nain the eye + sukh pleasure
Vocabulary lists containing nainsook
Example Sentences
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All that summer her quick fingers were busy with fine white flannel and finer white nainsook, setting tiny stitches in small garments.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
One was cambric, one was fine lawn or nainsook, and one of dimity.
From A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Miss Pinky Davis, our country sempstress, was sent for, and again Cousin Sue spent hours planning how best to cut up and trim the bolts of nainsook she had ordered from Richmond.
From Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
She wore a white duck skirt, a soft nainsook blouse open at the throat, the sailor collar knotted with a red silk scarf.
From Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson
“And this is some more clover,” she murmured later, as, robed in a little nainsook gown, she stretched out luxuriously between lavender scented sheets.
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford
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