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  • I would imagine myself gliding a modern nonstick electric clothes iron over poly-cotton blend shirts, and really wonder what she was talking about!

    Homemaking Is Easier Now 2009

  • Must be the combo of duck down and the techie poly-cotton outerwear — at least it must be in the case of mine, the Kensington, which is, I confess, the most flattering slim-line but superwarm piece of outerwear I have ever owned.

    Coolhunter Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • BROGDON: Shorts-gate is such a big deal that Woodward and Bernstein are going to routine just to find out, was it a poly-cotton blend or rayon?

    CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2009 2009

  • Lastly, I handstitched in a poly-cotton lining in black and topped it off with a black zipper.

    The First Purse I Have Ever Made 2009

  • I have only tried one kind of batting, that's the poly-cotton blend.

    Ginger's quilt top is..... Katy 2008

  • Some come with polyester scrims and can be poly-cotton blends.

    Tools to Use: Batting 2008

  • We're badly dressed enough in Washington already -- let's not throw animal remains into the mix of poly-cotton separates and navy blue everything.

    Karin Tanabe: What If: A Fashion Nightmare With VP Sarah Palin 2008

  • But those points will probably only interest or amuse nonbelievers, and leave believers as unfazed as my mother was when she tossed a line from Leviticus to me, and I tossed her one back from the same book that basically said the cheeseburger she had for lunch and the poly-cotton blouse she was wearing damned her as much as being gay supposedly damned me.

    Terrance Heath: Their Own Receive Them Not 2008

  • Couture Condi did suffer a small wardrobe malfunction recently when her flesh-toned blouse and the flashbulbs at a school in Perth, Australia didn't quite agree with each other, but most fashionistas reactions were, hurrah! she wasn't buttoned-up like a Victorian or wearing a poly-cotton blazer with an eagle on her shoulder.

    Karin Tanabe: The Great Pantsuit Problem (And What To Do About It) 2008

  • He claimed to “serve only the common cause of the people of the United States,” but like a poly-cotton blasphemer, he explicitly excluded the nonreligious from that common cause.

    ROMNEY AND THE POLYESTER BLASPHEMY 2007

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