Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A cotton fabric similar to piqué, stiff, and used for men's waistcoats and summer garments.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean
Examples
“They wore grey camlet riding habits, with large black Birmingham buttons (to mark the slight mourning for their deceased brother-in-law): while petticoats, fastened as pins did or did not their office, shewed more of the quilted marseilles and stuff beneath, than the precision of the toilet required: both of which, from their contact with the water of the bog, merited the epithet of "Slappersallagh," bestowed on their wearers by Terence”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827
“I'll buy you a white marseilles bedspread on our way back from the walk," he offered gravely.”
“And then he saw the Colonel, in white marseilles, smoking a cigar.”
“This morning he was dressed in a suit of the lightest gray, with a white marseilles waistcoat, over which his glittering chain shone ostentatiously.”
“A marseilles waistcoat, overloaded with embroidery, open, and held together by one button only just above the stomach, gave to the wearer a dissipated look, -- all the more so, because his jet black hair, in corkscrew curls, hid his forehead and hung down his cheeks.”
“... and on into the park itself with a king hanging in waiting for you to drop in and get down there roi style ahwe the king in his palace by bordeaux or maybe somewhere you don't want to go, who knows, maybe its just not coolbut hey! it's just pictures man ... or maybe just move to marseilles”
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
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Fabrics
Woven, knit and tatted fabrics. Other kinds of cloth, such as tapa and chamois are not included.
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