Nankeen
[næŋ'ki:n]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color.
艾弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
校對:莱利亚
解釋/意思:
n. a buff-coloured cotton cloth first made at Nankin in China: (pl.) clothes esp. breeches made of nankeen.—Also Nankin′.
校對:路易斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Five people out of six would die--of course--of that woman in nankeen with the flannel petticoat. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Nankeen trousers, displaying more white fancy-work over the ankles, and purple morocco slippers, adorned his lower extremities. 威爾基·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·薩克雷. 名利場.
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