Usage examples (34)

• Hannah was dressed in a lead-courlered habbit, open, with a lylack lutestring scirt.
• It was a blue lutestring habit, taffety apron and handkerchief, with the most butiful little hat on the side of her head I ever saw.
• Accordingly, it is white lutestring, covered and full-trimmed with white crape, festooned with lilac ribbon and mock point-lace, over a hoop of enormous size.
• -- This was the first day I changed my mourning; -- a white lutestring, with the fine suit of rough garnets your Ladyship gave me, was my dress on the occasion.