Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A material of silk, or of silk and wool, used in the eighteenth century for men's coats.
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Examples
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Spring herself, the living Bloom of charm and love, all arrayed in delicate gray sergedusoy opening upon carnation taffeta, and crowned with sheer quillings of primrose sarcenet, with a cheek that repeated these roseate tints and a glint of golden brown tresses curling softly against a nape of pearl, that the ranchmen were bewitched and dazed, and knew no more of good common-sense.
The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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I understand the English language; and "-- her voice rising into a liquid crescendo of delight --" I can wear my gray sergedusoy sack made over my carnation taffeta bodice and cashmere petticoat, all pranked out with bows of black velvet, most genteel, and my hat of quilled primrose sarcenet, grandfather.
The Frontiersmen Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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