nankeens

As for the nature of this business, advertisements placed by John Field and Nathan Dunn in Philadelphia newspapers indicate that they imported mostly the usual Chinese commodities: crates of tea, nankeens (a durable yellow cloth), and silken goods.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

When the Empress returned in 1785, it released a flood of merchandise onto the markets of New York and Philadelphia: tea, silks, nankeens, and porcelain.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

We hasten to offer you a lot of cheap mohairs and nankeens and hope they will meet your requirements.

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

But I was a young demon, romping with the grooms in the stable, while you were a young angel in nankeens, passing studious hours with your books.

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

A valuable ring flashed from the grimy finger of a fourth, who, instead of the military white nankeens, wore a pair of black silk breeches.

The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

Beneath this appeared the nankeens and black leggings of a soldier.

The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

"Esther 'd like to see her;" and William in his pale nankeens disappeared with one light step and was off.

A Dunnet Shepherdess 1910

Russian American Company, and distributed his cargo of nankeens, silks, tea, sugar, etc., among the Russian settlements dotted among the islands.

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And William in his pale nankeens disappeared with one light step and was off.

A Dunnet Shepherdess 1899

This was true, as regarded the bright nankeens, the blue coat with gold buttons, and the showiest of cambric kerchiefs swathing him up to the very chin.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897