The design or marking of moreen is different on every piece.    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

Moire -- The water effect produced on silk, moreen, and like fabrics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

= Moire is a waved or watered effect produced upon the surface of various kinds of textile fabrics, especially on grosgrain silk and woolen moreen.    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

The logs were chinked with clay, and the one window, though destitute of glass, and ornamented with the inevitable board-shutter, had a green moreen curtain, which kept out the wind and the rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference

Then, something making her turn her head sharply to the big bed with its red moreen curtains hanging straightly down beside its four carved posts, her eyes met the wide open eyes of the man lying there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

Which she did, leaving the doctor in company with the brown moreen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

But, except for that old dyed moreen petticoat, the things won't do.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy] Reference

Her grey dress was turned up in front over a crimson moreen petticoat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Peabody Pew] Reference

Id think my blifs more than complete ler prefence one moreen c to ftay 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vocal Magazine: Or, Compleat British Songster] Reference

The curtains may be of maroon-coloured cloth, or moreen, trimmed with gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference

An old spinet stood in a distant window, and the drab moreen curtains had once been handsome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light O' the Morning] Reference

Out of sight behind the moreen curtain, Mrs. Harbonner forgot she was not beyond hearing; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melbourne House] Reference

The range of windows aforementioned are furnished with curtains of crimson moreen, edged with black fringe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington] Reference

Your father's old rocker with the green moreen cushions stood over by the east window, where he used to sit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert and the Sown] Reference

The gas-light flared upon heavy mahogany furniture, upon red moreen curtains and big silver trays and dishes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dozen Ways Of Love] Reference

Out of sight behind the moreen curtain, Mrs. Harbonner forgot she was not beyond hearing; and Daisy's ears were good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melbourne House] Reference

He was shewn into the sitting-room, just as Faith with her arms full of brown moreen came into it also from the pantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

At Oestanvik my dressing-room furniture is blue, beautiful light blue silk damask; but in my sleeping-room I have green moreen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home] Reference

The doctor was not going to lose a shake of the hand, and waited for the brown moreen to be deposited on the floor accordingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

I meant to get new curtains for my back parlor, heavy snuff-colored moreen, going a great bargain, but I had to buy the dress instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town] Reference

Brother and sister sprang from their chairs, with a simultaneous impulse, rushed across the room, and crouched behind the moreen curtains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Game A Story for Girls] Reference

The first thing he saw was the distracted face of Anne put forward reluctantly towards her mother, against the dark moreen curtains of the bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference

The loose gown was a calico jacket that hung about the waist in gathers, and the petticoat was a moreen skirt that came down almost to the ankles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Grandmother] Reference

The curtains, I think, should be lavender-coloured moreen bound with black velvet, and made in the French style, with inner curtains of white muslin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally] Reference

I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I.] Reference

She fetched a tolerably large clothes-horse from somewhere — some shed or out-building; this she set at the foot of the couch, and hung an old large green moreen curtain over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melbourne House] Reference

"Here's a sofy will do," he continued, pointing to a kind of settee, cushioned, and with a common moreen valance hanging down, while a rough kind of pillow was fastened to one end.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bag of Diamonds] Reference

Meanwhile Faith, busy at her brown moreen, made her mother's job of mending seem like embroidery; but by degrees Mrs. Derrick's face became thoughtful, and she said, rather emphatically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference

A low, peculiar sound came from an ajar door, sounding like a remonstrant growl from the gentleman in question, whereupon Mrs Brade went and shut the door, and drew an old moreen curtain across the opening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Witness to the Deed] Reference

They went up to the old room in the south-western angle, the green moreen chamber, as it had been called, where the Nine Worthies used to congregate, and where Irving concocted some choice bits of fun for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl of Long Ago] Reference

Then with the moreen petticoat I am provided, equipped. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy] Reference

The leinstrel boy to the wall is gone and there’s moreen astoreen for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

"Across them were stretched benches consisting of a mere board covered with faded red moreen, a narrower board, shoulder high, being stretched behind to serve for a back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

Reply to this Comment moreen says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twilight Lexicon » The Twilight Movie Around the Globe] Reference

"Oh!" exclaimed Rosa, who had drawn aside one of the green moreen window curtains and was looking out -- "Oh! what a wild, beautiful place!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruel As The Grave] Reference

The making of moreen is interesting.    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

But in my bedroom I have green moreen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6] Reference

"No," said Faith, thinking of her brown moreen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say and Seal, Volume I] Reference