Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of cotton cloth used as a foundation for embroidery. Also called Jara canvas and toile colbert.

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Examples

  • The 85 year old Syed Haider Raza was invited to attend an exhibition of his work at the Dhoomimal Gallery in Connaught Place, New Delhi, India to find that most of the 35 works supposedly by him were fakes.

    January 2009 2009

  • The loan - whose interest we paid - went to fund his future property in Connaught Square.

    I think Libby Purves is angry Not a sheep 2008

  • The loan - whose interest we paid - went to fund his future property in Connaught Square.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • The new house in Connaught Square is alone mortgaged to the tune of £3. 5m.

    Think Progress » Rice abandons talks, shuttles back to the United States. 2006

  • Arthur, Duke of Connaught, is the only living white man who to-day has an

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • Upon the first news of the French descent, the troops in Connaught had been ordered by Lord Cornwallis to concentrate at Castlebar.

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • MATTHEW [full of scorn for a man so ignorant as to be unable to pronounce the word Connaught, which practically rhymes with bonnet in Ireland, though in Hodson's dialect it rhymes with untaught].

    John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • You ask if I have finally concluded about the house in Connaught Square?

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters 1891

  • The optimism contrasts with the problems at struggling Connaught, which is down another 1. 25p to 14. 49p.

    FTSE 100 edges higher ahead of inflation figures 2010

  • The Connaught is a dour brick pile in Mayfair, the fashionable neighborhood in central London famously mispronounced in Cockney in the title of the musical "My Fair Lady."

    Grousing About Darroze 2008

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