Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cloth the weft of which is of woolen yarn and the warp of cotton and silk: used for vests.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for waistcoats.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cloth formerly used forwaistcoats , having aweft ofwoollen yarn and awarp ofcotton andsilk .
Etymologies
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French toilinet. See toil a net.
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Examples
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The speaker was a middle-aged, middle-statured man, with a quick intelligent eye, dressed in a single-breasted green riding-coat, striped toilinette waistcoat, and drab trousers, with a whip in his hand.
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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