– a little old man in nankeen trousers and vest, a long blue coat and ruffled shirt, leaning on his cane, for he was lame, and smiling and bowing like a true Frenchman.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Old-Fashioned Girl] Reference

The material must be soaked in a solution of tin crystals before dipping, if a pure orange is desired, as without this the color will be a pink buff -- or "nankeen" color.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to make rugs] Reference

In tight nankeen britches and a long blue-tailed coat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cawsand Bay] Reference

Second dress: boy's suit of nankeen, white vest, straw hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obi Melodrama, Costumes, Obi, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles] Reference

They are made of nankeen, or dark blue, brown, or black silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference

Like nankeen reference, it was clearly not one color but several.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

On one of these little islets there was a man dressed in a nankeen suit fishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret Stonewalled]

Two Chinese gentlemen, in silk and nankeen dress and bamboo hats, explained things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876] Reference

The lady in nankeen now began, in a wheedling, coaxing voice, to beg 'Kate' to appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

It was he indeed, blooming in youth and beauty, in a nankeen jacket of the cut of 1804.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanity Fair] Reference

(Oh, and a charming little pair of nankeen half-boots would not be looked upon with disdain.).    From Wordnik.com.  [One Night Of Scandal]

‘Edward!’ she exclaimed, with a half – shriek, on seeing the well – known nankeen legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

He had on a frock-coat, nankeen trousers, beaver shoes, and, for a wonder, a hat with a low crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

Noel Vanstone slowly walked by, as she looked, dressed in a complete suit of old-fashioned nankeen.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Name] Reference

Five people out of six would die — of course — of that woman in nankeen with the flannel petticoat.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield] Reference

I suspected the lady in nankeen colour next me, and the dwarf and people immediately round both mediums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

He wore nankeen trousers, which looked a world too wide for him, and flapped to and fro on his bony shanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultima Thule] Reference

The genuine nankeen is never more than eighteen or twenty inches wide and is used for light summer clothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles and Clothing] Reference

Five minutes later, Ivan Nikiforovitch's nankeen trousers appeared, and took nearly half the yard to themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

I recollect I had on that day my blue coat and brass buttons, nankeen trousers, a white sprig waist-coat, and one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Hoggarty Diamond] Reference

‘I think I see them now coming up the street very wide apart, in nankeen’ pantaloons a little shrunk and without straps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

Within its central chamber sat a venerable man, lightly clad in nankeen breeches, a cap of liberty, and a Liberty silk shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891] Reference

But the strange part of it was that Anton Prokofievitch had a habit of wearing woollen clothing in summer and nankeen in winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

They are of a yellowish-drab color, with a narrow, reddish-brown line about the eye; the drab changing, by age, to dull nankeen-yellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Unfastening his old black girdle, he slowly divested himself of his torn nankeen kaftan, and deposited it carefully on the back of a chair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Childhood] Reference

Leon walked up and down the room; it seemed strange to him to see this beautiful woman in her nankeen dress in the midst of all this poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Bovary] Reference

The prospective son-inlaw was marched about the grounds on the nankeen-colored paths, all raked as they should be for the steps of so great a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pierre Grassou] Reference

Ivan Nikiforovitch was entirely reassured by these asseverations, and ordered his valet, in the boundless coat, to fetch his trousers and nankeen spencer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

They wear plain straw cottage bonnets; in summer white frocks on Sundays, and nankeen on other days; in winter, purple stuff frocks, and purple cloth cloaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference

Going down thither last year without a razor, I asked a fat seedy man lolling in a faded nankeen jacket at the door of a tawdry little shop in the Pantiles, to shave me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mens Wives] Reference

This bird is generally distributed over the continent and is known by the nankeen colour of his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference