Under dress of jaconet muslin, trimmed with lace or embroidery. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
They had on little white aprons, trimmed with jaconet edging, and collars as clean and white as snow. From Wordnik.com. ["Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show] Reference
Got my haversack lined with jaconet and filled with cut-dressings, very convenient, as you have both hands free. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference
No court costume with a tail three yards long, could to-day make me feel one-half so fine as the white jaconet, and green sash then sported. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
In their simple dresses — grey jaconet muslin, sparely trimmed with lavender — and wearing no jewel or ornament, but a single snow-drop in the breast, the lovely bridesmaids looked as if they defied all the world to make them brides. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
There were remnants of mull, Swiss, jaconet and other fabrics -- white, plain and barred. From Wordnik.com. [Holiday Stories for Young People] Reference
The jaconet and paper attached must be put into warm water until the split paper floats off. From Wordnik.com. [Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians] Reference
And the wonder of it is that he would tie your kid shoes; while he pulls out my jaconet, and sits on my French hat. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
The paper to be split should be well pasted on both sides with a thickish paste, and fine linen or jaconet placed on each side. From Wordnik.com. [Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians] Reference
At the windows, curtains of heavy white jaconet muslin, not too full, hung in sharp parallel plaits to the floor -- just to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorcery Club] Reference
Stiftsamtmann, the festivities are said to be very grand; on this occasion the matrons appear arrayed in silk, and the maidens in white jaconet; the rooms are lighted with wax tapers. From Wordnik.com. [Visit to Iceland] Reference
If the two pieces of jaconet are carefully pulled apart when dry, half the paper should be attached to each, unless at any point the paste has failed to stick, when the paper will tear. From Wordnik.com. [Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians] Reference
At the windows were curtains of snowy white jaconet muslin: they were tolerably full, and hung decisively, perhaps rather formally in sharp, parallel plaits to the floor -- just to the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2] Reference
Low-spoken words crept to and fro between Mrs. Martin and two middle-aged, sad-faced women of the Row, who sat around the candle on the little pine table, clipping and scalloping a jaconet shroud. From Wordnik.com. [Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice] Reference
To do this take a piece of jaconet and pin it out flat on the board, then evenly paste the back of the map with thin paste in which there are no lumps, and lay it on the linen, rub down through blotting-paper, and leave to dry. From Wordnik.com. [Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians] Reference
In their simple dresses -- grey jaconet muslin, sparely trimmed with lavender -- and wearing no jewel or ornament, but a single snow-drop in the breast, the lovely bridesmaids looked as if they defied all the world to make them brides. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War] Reference
What! silk for lining at two francs, when you can get jaconet for ten sous, or even for eight, that would do well enough!”. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
What! silk for lining at two francs, when you can get jaconet for ten sous, or even for eight, that would do well enough! ". From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
Domestic, linen, muslin, nainsook, swiss, jaconet, mull muslin, each a full piece. From Wordnik.com. [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference
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