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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
moire .
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Examples
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So home to dinner, my wife having put on to-day her winter new suit of moyre, which is handsome, and so after dinner I did give her L15 to lay out in linen and necessaries for the house and to buy a suit for Pall, and I myself to White Hall to a Tangier
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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So home to dinner, my wife having put on to-day her winter new suit of moyre, which is handsome, and so after dinner I did give her
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 30: August/September 1664 Samuel Pepys 1668
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So home to dinner, my wife having put on to-day her winter new suit of moyre, which is handsome, and so after dinner I did give her L15 to lay out in linen and necessaries for the house and to buy a suit for Pall, and I myself to White Hall to a Tangier
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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So home to dinner, my wife having put on to-day her winter new suit of moyre, which is handsome, and so after dinner I did give her L15 to lay out in linen and necessaries for the house and to buy a suit for Pall, and I myself to White Hall to a Tangier Committee, where Colonell Reames hath brought us so full and methodical an account of all matters there, that I never have nor hope to see the like of any publique business while I live again.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1664 Pepys, Samuel 1664
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This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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This day my new tailor, Mr. Langford, brought me home a new black cloth suit and cloake lined with silk moyre, and he being gone, who pleases me very well with his work and I hope will use me pretty well, then Deane and I to my chamber, and there we repeated my yesterday's lesson about ships all the morning, and I hope I shall soon understand it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 28: April/May 1664 Samuel Pepys 1668
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This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 08: October/November/December 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
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This day my new tailor, Mr. Langford, brought me home a new black cloth suit and cloake lined with silk moyre, and he being gone, who pleases me very well with his work and I hope will use me pretty well, then Deane and I to my chamber, and there we repeated my yesterday's lesson about ships all the morning, and I hope I shall soon understand it.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1664 Pepys, Samuel 1664
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This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and there we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Oct/Nov/Dec 1660 Pepys, Samuel 1660
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