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  • noun a fine strong sheer silky fabric made of silk or rayon or nylon

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Examples

  • I especially regret the lack of more extensive information about this intriguing actress, since Madame Ninon is a lively, feisty, argumentative character whose stage ancestry seems likely to extend all the way back to

    Cast and Characters 2008

  • Father de Smet would not at any time have called Ninon a scarlet woman.

    A Mountain Woman Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898

  • Father de Smet would not at any time have called Ninon a scarlet woman.

    A Mountain Woman 1896

  • "Ninon," he whispered, "it is on my soul not to let you go to-night.

    A Mountain Woman Elia Wilkinson Peattie 1898

  • "Ninon," he whispered, "it is on my soul not to let you go to-night.

    A Mountain Woman 1896

  • "Ninon," he said, "lived a long while ago, and did not properly refer the tall stranger to her mamma.

    From Jest to Earnest Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Ninon generously turned over to Françoise one of her own lovers, the handsome marquis de Villarceaux.

    Louis XIV's Secret Wife 2010

  • The Creature watches young William (who enters at the end of the Fritz-Ninon scene) now tease Fritz and engage him in a game of ball-throwing that concludes with the Creature's abduction from the stage of the young boy, who will die offstage.

    Novel into Drama and onto the Stage 2008

  • Salter, for instance, like Mrs Weippert (see Madame Ninon, above) was another of the provincial actors signed by Arnold at the English Opera House to frustrate the monopolistic practices of the so-called legitimate theatres when it came to "off-season" employment (Oxberry, 1: 147-48).

    Cast and Characters 2008

  • Ninon generously turned over to Françoise one of her own lovers, the handsome marquis de Villarceaux.

    Louis XIV's Secret Wife 2010

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