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- noun Plural form of
seersucker .
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Examples
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That unhappy speculator in seersuckers and castor-oil died in prison, and a _gooroo_ (that is, a spiritual teacher) feed by the Baboo, desolated his last hour with the assurance that he should transmigrate into the bodies of seven generations of _gharree_-horses, and drag _feringhee_ sailormen, in a state of beer, from the ghauts to the punch-houses, all his miserable lives.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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Uncle Rajinda as a basis for certain operations in seersuckers and castor-oil, that had yielded no returns.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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To complete the game, we must wait for Lottie to bring the "Rosette" safely home with salt-petre and indigo and hides and ginger and seersuckers and gunny-cloth.
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children Jane Andrews 1860
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I'm not one to stash the white wines, or even the rosés, back in the closet after Labor Day, as if they were white shoes or seersuckers.
NYT > Home Page By ERIC ASIMOV 2011
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Maybe the seersuckers if I feel like blinding classmates with frat stardom.
Articles on CollegiateTimes.com Andrew Reilly 2010
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"and the soul of Uncle Rajinda, the pride of the Mullicks, had no reason to be disquieted for the rupees, though the seersuckers had been but vanity, and the castor-oil vexation of spirit."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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