Nankeen
[næŋ'ki:n]
Definition
(noun.) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color.
Typed by Avery--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Edited by Lelia
Definition
n. a buff-coloured cotton cloth first made at Nankin in China: (pl.) clothes esp. breeches made of nankeen.—Also Nankin′.
Inputed by Lewis
Examples
- Five people out of six would die--of course--of that woman in nankeen with the flannel petticoat. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Nankeen trousers, displaying more white fancy-work over the ankles, and purple morocco slippers, adorned his lower extremities. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It was he indeed, blooming in youth and beauty, in a nankeen jacket of the cut of 1804. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typed by Ellie