calimanco

The mansion of one of these squires was of plaster striped with timber, not unaptly called calimanco-work, or of red brick; large casemented bow-windows,

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

Other textiles boast names utterly mysterious to us, opening up a lost world of camblet and fustian, susy and cherryderry, calimanco and linsey-woolsey.

Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

What's more, the light background (so different from the dark camblets, calimanco and stuff that working women had been obliged to wear earlier in the century) resembled that of a bright silk frock.

Threads of feeling Kathryn Hughes 2010

The quilter fitted a red calimanco patch in place, and studied the effect with intense interest.

Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883

I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust, -- swims in it from morning to night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose, -- it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of

Somebody's Luggage Charles Dickens 1841

Habit de Cour, composed of a yellow nankeen illusion dress over a slip of rich pea-green corduroy, trimmed en tablier, with bouquets of Brussels sprouts: the body and sleeves handsomely trimmed with calimanco, and festooned with a pink train and white radishes.

The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

The Squire is fond, too, of stopping at those inns which may be met with here and there in ancient houses of wood and plaster, or calimanco houses, as they are called by antiquaries, with deep porches, diamond-paned bow-windows, pannelled rooms, and great fire-places.

Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821

a slip of rich pea-green corduroy, trimmed en tablier, with bouquets of Brussels sprouts: the body and sleeves handsomely trimmed with calimanco, and festooned with a pink train and white radishes.

The Book of Snobs 2006

I had our porter up to get under the bed and fetch it out; and though he habitually wallows in dust, — swims in it from morning to night, and wears a close-fitting waistcoat with black calimanco sleeves for the purpose, — it made him sneeze again, and his throat was that hot with it that it was obliged to be cooled with a drink of Allsopp’s draft.

Somebody's Luggage 2007

She and Fitz went and bought them at Shoolbred’s, when you may be sure she treated herself likewise to a neat, sweet pretty half-mourning (for the Court, you know, is in mourning) — a neat sweet barege, or calimanco, or bombazine, or tiffany, or some such thing; but Madame Camille, of

A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 2006