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nun's cloth

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noun

  1. a thin soft plain-weave silk or worsted fabric used for veils, dresses, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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She was attired, this evening, in a simple gray frock of nun's cloth with a bunch of white roses on her left shoulder.

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Etamine—A light woolen cloth similar to batiste and nun's cloth, used for women's and children's wear.

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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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