pongee

The branches of the oaks looked like ghosts beyond the pongee curtains.

Or look out through the pongee curtains on the distant phantom lights of downtown.

In the early 20th century, pongee was an important export from China to the United States.

Upon the rear deck, beneath a widespread canopy, sat four men, dressed in suits of cool pongee.

Then Betty Sheridan, cool in pongee, came briskly in.

Later, after a couple of convicts die of heatstroke, a doctor is summoned; he wears a pongee suit.

Weem, in a dark pongee dressing-robe, opened the door for us and made a superfluous gesture toward the drawing-room.

HULAN dressed in a loose-fitting suit of pale green pongee.

She had on the dress which he loved so much, a silver-grey merino skirt and jacket, with a blouse of white pongee silk showing in front.

Pongee Hōmongi were made to promote kimono after WWII.

Avern came out in a pongee bathrobe, narrow blue and yellow stripes, showing bare legs and black velvet slippers with gold crests on them.

He said to Kelly, "Avern's sitting in his pongee robe in the squad room with Jerome, both waiting to be interviewed.

Since Pongee Hōmongi are made from Pongee, they are considered casual wear.

These include Katie's father, Solly, whom she sees "in a long-ago summer, for I remember the hat, the pongee suit, and the flirt of his cane."

From Prince Vasily's knee breeches (in "War and Peace") to the doctor's pongee suit, Tolstoy shows us clothing as an expression of history.

I thought that with white pongee silk as an under-dress, and then some sort of delicate--' 'Crepe de Chine,' Maude suggested.

Kelly looked at the guy in the striped pongee bathrobe, his skinny white legs, and said to Carl, "I bet this is your agent, Mr. Cohn."

The prefecture has strong agricultural roots, which are reflected in its most well-known exports: green tea, sweet potato, radish, Pongee rice, Satsuma ware and Berkshire pork ("kurobuta").

A kaku obi typically is made of hakata ori (and thus a Hakata obi) which has length-wise stripes), or from silk pongee, silk gauze, silk damask.

This type of silk is known under various names: "pongee", "eri silk" and "Shantung silk", the last name being derived from Shandong Province in China where this silk is often produced.

For a Distinctive Touch Friedman & Distillator sold fabric to milliners when it opened in 1923, but it has supplied classic lampshade fabrics, notably silk shantung, pongee and fine linen, to shade makers for years.

Stepping into the master's cabin, the engineer found Captain Ball seated at his desk, clad in a suit of pongee pajamas and with a magazine called Bloody Detective Stories propped upright on his considerable paunch.

The production of Tussah Silk or pongee was in Kaiping and Antung (Liaoning Province) while silk worms stayed in Kwantung (Kantoshu) and South Manchurian Railway zone, and Chosen.