| 单词 | nankeen cloth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnankeen cloth a. A kind of pale yellowish cloth, originally made at Nanking from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton which is then dyed; more fully nankeen cloth. Also in plural: a piece or variety of this cloth. Now chiefly historical.In some 18th-cent. uses perhaps referring to a variety of unbleached silk rather than cotton. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > coloured, patterned, or printed > specific pintadoa1575 Salempore1598 chintz1614 nankeenc1700 caffa1701 jamwar1721 nankinett1794 purdah1813 zephyr1819 nankeening1830 calico1841 permanent1854 galatea1874 Madras gingham1880 Turkey red1880 Madras1897 shadow cretonne1932 shadow stripe1932 c1700 Acct. of Sale of India Silks 1/2 Damask Nankeens 403, at 5l. 1755 in F. W. Fairholt Satirical Songs & Poems on Costume (1849) 239 Make his breeches of nankein, Most like nature, most like skin. 1781 A. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 402 There are some articles, which come from India,..Bengals, nankeens, Persian silk. c1809 F. Buchanan in M. Martin Eastern India (1838) III. 244 Wool having the colour of nankeen cloth. 1878 J. H. Gray China II. xxiii. 143 The cloth called nankin, generally written nankeen, is of the greatest durability. 1891 Cent. Mag. Mar. 735 The middle and lower half had been supplanted by another vest and trousers of faded nankeen. 1936 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 2 412 Translated, it runs like this, ‘Oh, you American knave dressed in nankeen—You steal loaves of bread for Mister d'Quin!’ 1957 P. White Voss xi. 318 Many a citizen, walking at the water's edge, in good nankeen or new merino, did entertain secret hopes. 1997 T. Clark Empire of Skin ii. 79 The long overland trek toting skins of sea otters..to exchange for..nankeens and tea. < as lemmas |
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