nankeen , auch: nankin

In Spanish mahón is also the name of nankeen, especially the blue cloth.

"And me some nankeen," said the second.

A thin roll of nankeen slid into a bottle which was then tightly corked would have done the job.

A pale yellow or buff; the colour of nankeen.

The Congress dances in split skirts and calf-pinching nankeen.

Trousers made of nankeen (singular or plural).

Five people out of six would die - of course - of that woman in nankeen with the flannel petticoat.

Nankeen also refers to:

The walls were lined with brown nankeen, bordered and edged with common green bordering paper, and destitute of skirting.

The term blue nankeen describes hand-printed fabric of artistic refinement and primitive simplicity, which originated on the Silk Road over three thousand years ago.

Mrs. Nankeen Worcester is in her Morning Room anticipating a visit from General Deelah.

Of the colour of nankeen; pale yellow or buff; also from their colour, part of the name of many animals and plants (chiefly Australian).

Pratincole, Arnham Land Grouse, Australian Courser, Roadrunner, Nankeen Plover, Swallow-plover.

Felt for hats, nankeen for jerkins and breeches, calico and lace for dresses, pots and pans, olive oil and wine. . .Where do they come from?

He sold his hay, and bought the presents: some nankeen for one of his daughters, for another some kumach, and for Little Simpleton a little silver plate and a little apple.

She belonged to the Philadelphia banker Stephen Girard and was bringing a valuable cargo of tea, nankeen, silk, copper, and cassia (Chinese cinnamon - Cinnamomum cassia), from Canton.

All this time, Rosalind stayed with her mother; but after a close call with a bomb spraying OldTech neurotoxins, the girl had been sent away for her own protection, to a boarding school in Nankeen.

The only change ever known in his outward man, was from a complete suit of coffee-colour cut very square, and ornamented with glaring buttons, to the same suit of coffee-colour minus the inexpressibles, which were then of a pale nankeen.

The Great Chamberlain wore one of the more spectacular Court uniforms consisting of a scarlet coat with gold embroidery on the front and around the collar, a waistcoat and knee breeches of nankeen, silk stockings and shoes with gold buckles.

Aurelia,Mrs Bullock and the remaining two women decided they would be responsible for the wounded if or when they had any, and sheets of nankeen and calico were cut into strips of various widths and then rolled up for use as bandages.

With these earnings, the crew bought bolts of silk and nankeen, a sturdy cotton cloth to be made into knee britches; thousands of crates of tea, the most popular beverage back home, and porcelain dinnerware, both for sale and for personal use.

The recently widowed Mrs. Emily Nankeen Worcester and General Edwin Deelah intend to marry each other, feigning love, but each is secretly interested in the other's purportedly valuable collection of "rare" china, which they plan to sell upon marriage.

Nankeen, also called Nankeen cloth, is a kind of pale yellowish cloth, originally made at Nanjing from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton which is then dyed.

The Common Kestrel's closest living relative is apparently the Nankeen or Australian Kestrel (F. cenchroides), which probably derived from ancestral Common Kestrels settling in Australia and adapting to local conditions less than one million years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene.

She knew exactly how lean and firm his body would be beneath the fine linen and nankeen, knew how his skin would feel beneath her fingers if she were to reach out and slip her hand into the open placket of his lawn shirt.