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Sentence Examples
A waitress neatly dressed in traditional Chinese nankeen jacket at Tianle Restaurant serves ganshao luyou, spicy perch.
Suspended below this, clad in blue jacket, white waistcoat and nankeen pantaloons, and waving a silk French tricolour, stood Garnerin in a small basket.
The characteristic yellowish colour of nankeen is attributed to the peculiar colour of the cotton from which it was originally made.
She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated.
Natural white or nankeen colour, or black dyed.
Examples from Classical Literature
She was as proud in cambric and calico and nankeen as Harriet is to-day in white tulle and organdy.
We have a picture of him at the age of five, in a nankeen frock and a frill.
Scarlet and nankeen were the colours chiefly favoured for the spring costume of the exquisites of the period.
The wearing of nankeen at one time was so popular among gentlemen in England, that it also became the fashion in France.
Mr. Brandon wore a nankeen suit, and had a green veil in readiness.
They are made of nankeen, or dark blue, brown, or black silk.
For example, I am taking you to-day to see the Prince in a nankeen vest.
In point of colour the black and nankeen varieties are the best.
The nankeen coloured and the black are the greatest favourites.
Crupp to communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stout lady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.
His nether garment was a yellow nankeen, closely fitted to the shape, and tied at his bunches of knees by large knots of white ribbon, a good deal sullied by use.
Nankeen is obtained from Spanish arnatto dissolved in hot water, with a small portion of pearlash in it.
