Poplin
['pɒplɪn] or ['pɑplɪn]
Definition
(n.) A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.
Typed by Elbert
Definition
n. a kind of cloth consisting of a warp of silk and a weft of worsted the latter being thicker than the former giving a corded appearance.
Editor: Sasha
Examples
- I have some notion of putting such a trimming as this to my white and silver poplin. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was of green poplin, with a loose coat above it, of broad, dark-green and dark-brown stripes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- What's the use of asking that, when you know we shall wear our poplins, because we haven't got anything else? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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