Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light, plain-woven fabric, usually of tussah or raw silk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soft, unbleached washing silk resembling the tasar silk of India, woven in China, chiefly in the province of Shantung, from cocoons of a wild silkworm (Attacus pernyi) which feeds on a scrub-oak. The finer kinds bleached, dyed or figured after importation, are known in the trade as China silks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A soft unbleached
silk , fromChina orIndia , fromsilkworms that feed onoak leaves
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They seem always to be papered with buff-and-mustard papers and to have "pongee" sofa-cushions with frills.
The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Elinor Glyn 1903
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Miss Drexel, seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers, ran along the sand and dropped the skirt for a foothold for the slowly revolving wheels.
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At one point Miss Drexel "seized by inspiration or desperation, with a quick movement stripped off her short, corduroy tramping-skirt, and, looking very lithe and boyish in slender-cut pongee bloomers," throws the skirt under the wheels to give the machine's wheels purchase.
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Fontana of Italy, in a feat never before attempted in pongee, novelty cottons, shantung, or faille, is performing the incredibly difficult REVERSE BOLERO with this pattern.
August 2009 2009
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Fontana of Italy, in a feat never before attempted in pongee, novelty cottons, shantung, or faille, is performing the incredibly difficult REVERSE BOLERO with this pattern.
Fontana Attempts the Difficult and Dangerous Reverse Bolero! - A Dress A Day 2009
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Wild silk fabrics—such as pongee or shantung—are both durable and less expensive than pure dye silks.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Wild silk fabrics—such as pongee or shantung—are both durable and less expensive than pure dye silks.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Wild silk fabrics—such as pongee or shantung—are both durable and less expensive than pure dye silks.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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Wild silk fabrics—such as pongee or shantung—are both durable and less expensive than pure dye silks.
HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005
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The willow, almond and the whole lot of trees, on the upper side, were, it is true, without blossom and leaves; but pongee and damask silks, paper and lustring had been employed, together with rice-paper, to make flowers of, which had been affixed on the branches.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
knitandpurl commented on the word pongee
"Mrs. Oliphant was very glad to see them. She wore a suit made out of pongee, a hat with a green veil, an amethyst necklace, a lapis lazuli necklace, and a silver one with her eyeglasses on it."
The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, pp 165-166 of the 2008 paperback edition
July 2, 2011