Thirty years ago delaine was the staple dress goods stock.    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 mean muslin-de-laine, and a blue delaine, and a blue silk — —”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

All wool challis does not differ essentially from the old-fashioned muslin delaine.    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

In fact she was more than ever pleased with her new gray delaine dress with its long full skirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference

She had exchanged her brown delaine for a plain calico dress, with a bit of white edging about the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference

She had exchanged her brown delaine for a plain, calico dress, with a bit of white edging about the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference

They also very much admired my mother's delaine dress which was of triangles in blue, red, black and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

The bride, who was a beautiful girl, wore a delaine dress of light and dark blue with a large white lace fichu.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History] Reference

This red delaine I wore to a spelling bee when I was about sixteen and I got a book for a prize for standing up next to last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

She bought herself three new dresses; a neat gingham for morning wear, a delaine for afternoons, and something nicer for best.    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Readings for the Home Circle] Reference

So in all the hurry no one seemed to think much about Marcia, and she was not satisfied with her brown delaine afternoon dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

She had on a brown delaine dress, without a sign of a ruffle, or trimming of any kind, and the shabbiest hat and shawl you ever saw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference

And she glanced down along her unbuttoned jacket, over the faded delaine dress, to her shoes tied with strings held together by countless knots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference

Smoothing it carefully down in front, Martha was disappointed to see that it did not reach nearly so far over the brown delaine dress as she had expected.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference

Rose Brentwood was looking her very prettiest in a rose-sprigged delaine and her wavy dark hair in a beaded net tied round with a rose-colored lute-string ribbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia Schuyler] Reference

It had come from New York, and was called delaine.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference

She wore a low-necked, and short-sleeved, brown delaine dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference

"Let me show you a delaine for Anna which she finished yesterday.".    From Wordnik.com.  [All's for the Best] Reference

She was always glad to wear that white delaine with the scarlet spots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dotty Dimple At Home] Reference

She tore a three-cornered place in her best muslin delaine, getting over the wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference

Two calicoes, a blue muslin, a gingham and another delaine, beside the one she had on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aikenside] Reference

She forgot to swing her muslin delaine skirts gracefully, and flounced along hitting the dusty meadowsweet bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Lucretia and Other Stories] Reference

Betsey went down the street in her thinnest dress -- an old delaine, with delicate bunches of faded flowers on a faded green ground.    From Wordnik.com.  ["A Poetess"] Reference

She thought she might as well have worn her calico wrapper as this beautiful white delaine, for all the notice they took of her dress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dotty Dimple At Home] Reference

The next moment the brown delaine dress was rubbing elbows with a richly bound book and a Duchesse lace collar in the middle bureau drawer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tangled Threads] Reference

She had on a "voylet" delaine skirt, with three bias bands round the bottom, and a "blowse" of transparent muslin stamped with floral devices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dop Doctor] Reference

Martha took the little girl up-stairs and put on a blue delaine frock and white apron, and polished her "buskins," as the low shoes were called.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old New York] Reference

A plain delaine, which Ella declared she would not wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The English Orphans] Reference

A velvet bonnet, a delaine dress, a broche shawl, and Dora's hair!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dora Deane] Reference

"specs" and a nice warm hood, and Aunt Milly had a delaine dress; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life] Reference

And you know it was only the littlest while ago I put on this blue delaine, to go to auntie's in! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple] Reference

This old and faded-out delaine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

And wears the faded-out delaine!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

That she might doff her old delaine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions]

There were dresses of calico and delaine of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm] Reference

Is it calico, or a delaine? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ...] Reference