Nankeen
[næŋ'ki:n]
解释:
(noun.) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color.
艾弗里校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.
(n.) An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
(n.) Trousers made of nankeen.
校对:莱利亚
解释:
n. a buff-coloured cotton cloth first made at Nankin in China: (pl.) clothes esp. breeches made of nankeen.—Also Nankin′.
校对:路易斯
例句:
- Five people out of six would die--of course--of that woman in nankeen with the flannel petticoat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Nankeen trousers, displaying more white fancy-work over the ankles, and purple morocco slippers, adorned his lower extremities. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was he indeed, blooming in youth and beauty, in a nankeen jacket of the cut of 1804. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
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