How To Use nainsook In A Sentence
- She wore a white duck skirt, a soft nainsook blouse open at the throat, the sailor collar knotted with a red silk scarf. Peggy Stewart at School
- At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved. Anna Karenina
- This fabric dates back to seventeenth century India when it was sometimes called nansook, nyansook or nainsook and was thought to give ‘pleasure to the eye’.
- “‘And yourself, she thought in her nainsook, you want him to be Uncle Remus goes to war, then the old happy fishing patriot.’” Miracles, Inc.
- I went everywhere for your French nainsook, but every shop was just out of it. At Home with the Jardines
- The striped and plaid nainsook are used for the same purposes. Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
- For an undergarment of this style, nainsook, batiste, long-cloth and cambric are the best materials.
- This structure greatly increased their capabilities, allowing them to bleach, for the first time, such classes of cotton goods as wide sheetings and fancy lawns and nainsooks.
- Slips are usually made of some very soft material such as nainsook, batiste, pearline, or sheer lawn cloth. The Mother and Her Child
- Nainsook and lawn were made in extra fine, fine and regular cottons with the extra fine nainsook having a silk finish.