Dimity
[dimiti]
Definition
(noun.) a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains.
Edited by Guthrie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.
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Definition
n. a kind of stout white cotton cloth striped or figured in the loom by weaving with two threads.
Typed by Geoffrey
Examples
- I say _whiteness_--for the dimity curtains, dropped before a French bed, bounded my view. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The little white dimity bed was as smooth and trim as on the day previous, when Betty's own hands had helped to make it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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