tricotine
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of tricotine
1895–1900; < French, equivalent to tricot tricot + -ine -ine 1
Example Sentences
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In a slim, brown tricotine with a wide, untrimmed hat of silky brown straw her loveliness has come back, and with it my enthusiasm.
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She just wore a dark blue tricotine one-piece dress and a little plain dark hat.
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"And did you see a girl with black pumps and white silk stockings and a blue tricotine dress embroidered with crystal beads?"
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