Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trade-name given to various thin woolen fabrics.
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Examples
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The Henrietta cloth and imperial serges are chosen for heavy winter dresses, while for those of less weight are tamise cloth,
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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Mrs. Argenter was up-stairs in a black tamise wrapper with a large plain black shawl folded about her, as she lay in the chill of a suddenly cool August evening, on the sofa in her dressing-room, which for the last week or two she had rarely left.
The Other Girls 1865
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