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

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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.
From cotton are made many qualities of unbleached, half-bleached, and bleached cloth, also calicoes, ginghams, muslins, nainsooks, cambrics, etc.
The finest and softest of French and Scotch flannels, French linen, dimity, nainsook, and India silk are always dainty and they should be made up very simply with little trimming, but that of the finest. Textiles and Clothing
The framework and ribs were made entirely of Riga pine; the surface fabric was nainsook. A History of Aeronautics
During the summer months nainsook caps or other thin materials are to be preferred to the heavy crocheted caps that are sometimes worn by babies. The Mother and Her Child