tussore

• I am making up my mind that serge and ticking are likely to be the most useful material for dresses, and, as one must have something very cool for these burning months, tussore or foulard, which get themselves better washed than my poor dear cottons. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
• Hilda's is a tussore silk, frightfully sweet, and I had a blouse with a lot of Carrickmacross lace on it. —  Lalage's Lovers
• She was drawing on her tan gloves now, and unfurling a parasol of tussore silk with a heavy lace fall. —  Wild Kitty
• There was blood on his tussore shirt. —  Far to Seek A Romance of England and India
• In the bedroom a dark-grey frock of tussore and a petticoat were flung carelessly on the bed; a big grey hat of Ottoman silk was lying upon a chest of drawers in the recess of —  At the Villa Rose

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