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nun's cloth
/ ²ÔÊŒ²Ô³ú /
noun
- a thin soft plain-weave silk or worsted fabric used for veils, dresses, etc
Example Sentences
She was attired, this evening, in a simple gray frock of nun's cloth with a bunch of white roses on her left shoulder.
Etamine—A light woolen cloth similar to batiste and nun's cloth, used for women's and children's wear.
There was a white China silk, with belt and shoulder-knots of black velvet; a white Japanese crepe, with purple lilacs strewed over its surface, and frills of violet ribbon for ornament; a Christmas dress of soft, white camel's hair, with bands of white-fox fur round the slightly pointed neck and elbow-sleeves; and, last of all, a Quaker gown of silver-gray nun's cloth, with a surplice and full undersleeves of white cr�pe-lisse.
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