Pauline held up a sample of blue and white striped dimity. From Wordnik.com. [The S. W. F. Club] Reference
I draped myself in the white dimity window curtain, and watched. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
I do believe the little tyke has torn my new dimity, clutching at it so. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
No dimity-parlour for him with his family, not for a guinea and a half a week. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
I say whiteness — for the dimity curtains, dropped before a French bed, bounded my view. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Everything was scrupulously clean, even to the dimity vallance that hung across the low window. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
The material was of dimity, over muslin, and tiny rows of "val." lace formed a yoke and edgings. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
This dyed the dimity-hangings of the fourposter; made ruddy pools in the great mahogany wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
After these words the bridal bonnet disappeared; with as much state as the dimity bedgown left in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference
Grace and Anne had both chosen white, Jessica a dainty flowered organdie, and Nora a pale pink dimity. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
It was a very pretty room, very fresh and frilly with white dimity and with much pink and pale lavender. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Allegra flitted around the music room like a nervous butterfly in her pink dimity frock and kid slippers. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
This particular Lilac Sunday she was wearing the sprigged dimity that Seth bought her over in Spring Road at. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
He turned away and stood in the kitchen looking at one of the dimity curtains, the one which lay on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
Under the head of muslin brought to a high degree of perfection in weave and finish will be found dimity, mull. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
A short flannel gown and a dimity petticoat of very antique pattern and scanty dimensions, completed her costume. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
Her white dimity frock belled around her ankles, revealing a tantalizing hint of ruffled crinoline and kid slippers. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
In the dimity-hung double bed that stood against the wall, little Lucie, her bed-fellow, slept the drunken sleep of childhood. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Childhood] Reference
As the infant world ascended from cambric and dimity to broadcloth and crinoline, its propensity for investigation grew stronger. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
When Mrs Prodd heard the hoof thuds in the yard, she muttered under her breath and peered out between the dimity kitchen curtains. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
When she reappeared, it was with a snowy white dimity spread taken from her own bed, a pitcher of ice-water, and a large palm-leaf fan. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
In a remote part of the building I found some Englishmen at work manufacturing what the French were then little acquainted with, dimity. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Bella ordered a dimity blouse and a flowered skirt (dirndl was the fashion) and came often to sit with Essie while she diligently sewed. From Wordnik.com. [What Happened to the Baby?] Reference
For children's dresses, the pretty ginghams in small checks, chambray, dimity, serge, flannels, cashmere are appropriate and serviceable. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
A blue dimity was selected as being in the best wearing condition, but in looking it over she found a rent in the skirt and two buttons gone. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference
Among other passengers in the train, was a man conspicuous among his fellows for clean hide and clean dimity; on inquiry, I was told he was a. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
The bed, draped in dimity curtains, was turned down and exhaled that odor of freshly washed linen which invites one to stretch one's self in it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Being a dutiful mother, Mrs. Barraclough asked no questions; -- instead she arranged accommodation and bought some new dimity chintzes for the top floor bedrooms. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
The best room may have had a carved oak chest, brought from England, a tent or field bedstead, with green baize, or white dimity curtains, and generous feather bed. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
We were twin-like in lace-trimmed dresses of light blue dimity, striped with a tan-colored vine, blue sashes and hair ribbons; and each held a bunch of flowers in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate] Reference
She thought it was a beautiful costume, and that the other girls looked nice, too, though Laura's white dimity and Nettie's blue pique were as well worn as her own familiar lawn. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy-Alone] Reference
With the money that I get from the sale of these eggs I'll buy myself a new dimity frock and a chip hat; and when I go to market, won't all the young men come up and speak to me!. From Wordnik.com. [Aesop's Fables] Reference
A lady beautifully dressed in white dimity appeared in the doorway. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canaan] Reference
A dark ruffled head and two frightened eyes appeared above the dimity spread. From Wordnik.com. [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm] Reference
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