alphabet

Nankeen

Definition of nankeen:

She also saw with surprise that his nankeen trousers were stained, as if he had been kneeling on damp ground. "Studies in love and in terror", Marie Belloc Lowndes.
His old schoolmate speaks of him as " a spiritual- looking boy in blue nankeen who seems to be about ten years old,- whose image more than any other is still deeply stamped upon my mind, as I then saw him and loved him, I knew not why, and thought him so angelic and remarkable." "The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist).
She would describe him as an unmarried man, of the age of fifty,- he had a prejudice against marrying under fifty,- dressed in nankeen for all weathers, with no other protection than a whalebone umbrella, and likewise remarkable for a fine Roman nose. "Merry-Garden and Other Stories", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
Salmon flesh, centre nankeen yellow. "Roses and Rose Growing", Rose Georgina Kingsley.

Violate

To treat roughly or severely; to ill- use; to encroach or trespass upon; as, to violate an other's rights or property; to profane or treat irreverently; as, to violate a tomb or grave; to transgress, as the law; to disregard, as a treaty; to break, as a promise; to outrage or dishonor. ...