pekins

RENARD, former captain in the Imperial army, withdrew to Issoudun during the Restoration; one of the officers in the Faubourg de Rome, who were hostile to the "pekins" and partisans of Maxence (Max) Gilet.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

While pekins are formed by warp stripes, bayadère shows us stripes of different weaves running in the direction of the filling.

Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics Arnold Wolfensberger

The white pekins are the popular birds, because they are larger, have white meat, and are splendid layers.

Three Acres and Liberty Bolton Hall 1896

It made me sick to hear him currying favour with the gendarme, and still worse that it was affecting the old trooper, who looked on all as _pekins_, mere civilians, far inferior to military men.

The Passenger from Calais Arthur Griffiths 1873

They also brought with them the gorgeous silks of China, satin damasks, some white, and others grass-green and bright red; pink taffetas, with the profusion of satins and gauze of Tonquin, both plain and decorated with flowers; soft pekins, downy as cloth; and white and yellow nankeens, and the calicoes of Madagascar.

Paul et Virginie. English Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1775