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nankeen
Part of speech: NounA brownish yellow cotton cloth, formerly brought from China. Also, nankin.
Usage examples "nankeen":- A jacket of yellow nankeen, a striped cotton shirt, with loose cottonade trousers of bright sky colour. - "The Boy Hunters", Captain Mayne Reid.
- I do not speak for myself," he broke off, drawing himself up in his nankeen jacket, " for thank heaven, I could go anywhere now." - "Bohemians of the Latin Quarter", Henry Murger.
- He went on to the Green, where he came so suddenly upon the eldest Master Johnson, sitting in a puddle on purpose, in his new nankeen skeleton suit, that the young gentleman thought judgment had overtaken him at last, and abandoned himself to the howlings of despair. - "Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories", Juliana Horatio Ewing.