Nankeen
Definition of nankeen:
part of speech: noun
part of speech: noun
A buff- colored cotton cloth first made at Nankin, in China.
part of speech: noun
A brownish yellow cotton cloth, formerly brought from China. Also, nankin.
Usage examples for nankeen:
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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.