Nankeen

Definition of nankeen:

part of speech: noun

A buff colored cotton cloth.

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:

• 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.