nankeen

• My recollection is that we did not think very highly of ourselves when we were in blue nankeen,—a dull-colored fabric, too nearly of the complexion of the slates on which we did our ciphering. —  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A jacket of yellow nankeen, a striped cotton shirt, with loose cottonade trousers of bright sky colour. —  The Boy Hunters
• Scarlet and nankeen were the colours chiefly favoured for the spring costume of the exquisites of the period. —  Art in England Notes and Studies
• They returned to St. Clair and Fleury's — bought the gray merino and the nankeen, and a dark brown merino for a dress Do you want only one of these?" —  The Wide, Wide World
• They are made of nankeen, or dark blue, brown, or black silk. —  The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands

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