Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stuff of wool, or wool and silk, mentioned in the seventeenth century: it was similar to lasting.
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Examples
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Lettice's Sunday best was not of an extravagant character, being a dark green perpetuana gown, trimmed with silver lace, a mantle of plum-coloured cloth, and a plum-coloured hood lined with dark green.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"I think, my dear, the green perpetuana were not too good, with clean apron, ruff, and cuffs, and a silver lace: but I would have nought more."
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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"They are lined with perpetuana, Aunt," answered Aubrey, who seemed greatly amused by this reckoning.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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