Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light textile fabric, originally of wool, afterward more commonly of mixed materials, and frequently printed. See
muslin-de-laine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A kind of fabric for women's dresses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A kind of
fabric for women'sdresses .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous
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Thirty years ago delaine was the staple dress goods stock.
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They also very much admired my mother's delaine dress which was of triangles in blue, red, black and white.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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She bought herself three new dresses; a neat gingham for morning wear, a delaine for afternoons, and something nicer for best.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous
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The bride, who was a beautiful girl, wore a delaine dress of light and dark blue with a large white lace fichu.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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There were packs of furs, all kinds of Indian work, hats and caps, tallow dips and more elegant candles, a beautiful piece of delaine for white women and shoddy bright stuff for the squaws, a barrel of rounds of pork most used up, but no flour, that was all gone.
Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History Various
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And she glanced down along her unbuttoned jacket, over the faded delaine dress, to her shoes tied with strings held together by countless knots.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher
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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.
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher
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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.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers
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She had exchanged her brown delaine for a plain calico dress, with a bit of white edging about the neck.
Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous
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