Slips are usually made of some very soft material such as nainsook, batiste, pearline, or sheer lawn cloth. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
The striped and plaid nainsook are used for the same purposes. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
I went everywhere for your French nainsook, but every shop was just out of it. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
She wore a white duck skirt, a soft nainsook blouse open at the throat, the sailor collar knotted with a red silk scarf. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
During the summer months nainsook caps or other thin materials are to be preferred to the heavy crocheted caps that are sometimes worn by babies. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
The finest and softest of French and Scotch flannels, French linen, dimity, nainsook, and India silk are always dainty and they should be made up very simply with little trimming, but that of the finest. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles and Clothing] Reference
One was cambric, one was fine lawn or nainsook, and one of dimity. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old New York] Reference
The framework and ribs were made entirely of Riga pine; the surface fabric was nainsook. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Aeronautics] Reference
She wore a frock of white embroidered nainsook and a leghorn covered with white feathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Californians] Reference
Mrs. East, though warned that nights would be chill, have come clothed in silk and gossamer, and have brought low-necked nightgowns of nainsook trimmed with lace. From Wordnik.com. [It Happened in Egypt] Reference
At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved. From Wordnik.com. [Anna Karenina] Reference
When he had gone, she cleaned all of her toilet silver, and ran ribbons into nicely embroidered nainsook things, and put her pillows in the sun and tied up her head and swept and dusted, and when she had made everything shining, she had a bit of lunch on a tray, and then she washed her hair. From Wordnik.com. [Mistress Anne] Reference
Of co'se, me bein 'de fust singer, dat entitles me to wear de highest plumage, an' Frances, she knows dat, an 'she' lowed to me she was gwine wear dat white nainsook lawn you gi'n 'er, an' des a plain secondary hat, an 'at de p'inted time we all three got to rise an' courtesy to de congergation, an 'den bu'st into song. From Wordnik.com. [Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches] Reference
= nansú =, nainsook. From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] Reference
= nainsook =, nansú. From Wordnik.com. [Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)] 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
Combinations were of longcloth, cambric, nainsook, etc., with wide frilled legs, embroidered or decorated with lace, ribbons, or insertions. From Wordnik.com. [Underclothes in World War One] Reference
They range in variety from what his store books call prenolphthaline, solution of; cans, iron, tinned, 4 galls.; bits, brace, carpenter's, centre, 1 1/4 inches; to flags, hand, nainsook, white, with dark blue stripe, 2 ft. by 2 ft.; watches, stop; bolts, steel, screwed, bright, hexagonal-headed, 1 in. by 2 in.; sealing wax, foolscap, paper fasteners, and pencils; and paint, green, Brunswick, middling, whatever that may be. From Wordnik.com. [Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories] Reference
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