cachemire

• “She wears always the same dress, -- a kind of gray pearl-coloured silk, with a 'cachemire' shawl.”

  The Parisians — Volume 01

• “I feel quite sure that without this "cachemire" she would not have kept her footing in the pensionnat for two days: by virtue of it, and it only, she maintained the same a month.”

  Villette

• “I feel quite sure that without this “cachemire” she would not have kept her footing in the pensionnat for two days: by virtue of it, and it only, she maintained the same a month.”

  Villette

• “To the practised eye, a Hijazi in Tarbush and Caftan is ridiculous as a Basque or a Catalonian girl in a cachemire and a little chip.”

  Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah

• “Every Turk, and indeed every inhabitant of Stamboul, carries about his person a square bag, either of cachemire ornamented with embroidery, or of common silk, in which he keeps a supply of tobacco; and as the coffee-house supplies him with a pipe-stick and pipe gratis, he pays only for the cup of coffee which accompanies it.”

  Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833

• “Her best clothes evidently, cachemire and silk, with two flowers and a feather in her hat, her charming baby prettiness as much crushed and eclipsed as bad taste and a country town dressmaker could accomplish.”

  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891

• “Still the wrecks were there -- the red cap with the long blue silk tassel; the vest of black cloth embroidered with gold; the pantaloons of deep red; the large, full gaiters of the same color, embroidered with gold like the vest; the yellow slippers; the cachemire around his waist, and the small, crooked cangiar passed through his girdle.”

  Monte-Cristo's Daughter

• “NO one, I imagine, ever yet left an hotel in a central and bustling part of Paris, without feeling the faculty of observation strained to the utmost, and experiencing a whirl and jumble of recollections as little in unison with each other as the well known signs of that whimsical city, the _Boeuf à-la-mode_, (with his cachemire shawl and his ostrich feathers) and the _Mort d'Henri Quartre_.”

  Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819

• “It is made very simple or very richly ornamented: for instance, those of the most simple description are made either of black velvet, embroidered with braid, and fastened with black jet buttons, or of cachemire; and a pretty style, of straw color, embroidered in the same colored silk, and closed with fancy silk bell buttons, whilst a few may be seen in white, quilted and embroidered with oak leaves and rose-buds.”

  The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II

• “And here is the Signora dell'Acqua's white cachemire shawl dangling on one arm, and the Signora herself languishingly clinging to the other; and the gondolas are fretting in a fury of excitement, like corks, upon the churned green water!”

  New Italian sketches

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