Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick, twilled woolen cloth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of stuff, usually thick and resembling drugget or frieze: it is chiefly employed for linings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic a thick, coarse,
woolen twill
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To making a half-dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin 12 12 0 To a pair of silk stocking breeches 2 5 0 To a pair of bloom-coloured ditto 1 4 6
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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On the day of this dinner he had delivered to Goldsmith a half-dress suit of ratteen lined with satin, costing twelve guineas, a pair of silk stocking-breeches for L2 5_s. and a pair of bloom-coloured ditto for L1 4_s. 6_d.
Samuel Johnson Leslie, Stephen 1878
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On the day of this dinner he had delivered to Goldsmith a half-dress suit of ratteen lined with satin, costing twelve guineas, a pair of silk stocking-breeches for £2 5_s_. and a pair of bloom-coloured ditto for £1
Samuel Johnson Leslie Stephen 1868
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When he was figuring at Boswell's dinner in Old Bond Street in the "ratteen suit lined with satin, and bloom-coloured silk breeches," the clothes belonged to his tailor, and remained unpaid till his death.
Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858
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Among the items we find a green half-trimmed frock and breeches, lined with silk; a queen's blue dress suit; a half dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin; a pair of silk stocking breeches, and another pair of bloom color.
Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849
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Among the items we find a green half-trimmed frock and breeches, lined with silk; a queen's blue dress suit; a half dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin; a pair of silk stocking breeches, and another pair of bloom color.
Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821
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To making a half-dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin 12 12 0
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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[35.6] Sagathy is "a light woolen stuff, a kind or serge or ratteen, sometimes mixed with a little silk."
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Among the items we find a green half-trimmed frock and breeches, lined with silk; a queen’s blue dress suit; a half dress suit of ratteen, lined with satin; a pair of silk stocking breeches, and another pair of bloom color.
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"One chintz rug, another of wadded silk, four roubles; one pelisse fox skin lined with red ratteen, forty roubles; and lastly, a small hareskin
The Daughter of the Commandant Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 1818
yarb commented on the word ratteen
My lodging, too, was none of the worst: stretched on good fresh straw, with a cushion of ratteen under my head, and a coverlet over me of the same stuff I made but one nap of it all night.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 10
October 10, 2008