baby-linen

I warrant she'll go about, visiting the poor, and making them clothes, and broths, and wine possets, and baby-linen, all day long.

Camilla 2008

To us at home, who live and feel our life every day, the manufacture of endless baby-linen and the packing of mountains of clothes does not give an idea of much pleasurable excitement; but at San Jose, where there was scarcely motion enough in existence to prevent its waters from becoming foul with stagnation, this packing of baby-linen was delightful, and for a month or so the days went by with happy wings.

Tales of all countries 2004

The drawing-room piano was strewn with white baby-linen; pink and green fruit glimmered in glass bottles.

The Years 2004

Kin, the village woman, who had first seen the light through the chinks of a bamboo hut thatched with palm-leaves, would sit on a high chair with her feet imprisoned in silk stockings and high-heeled shoes (yes, she would actually wear shoes in that place!) talking to English ladies in Hindustani about baby-linen!

Burmese Days 2002

The form which the avenging Errinyes assumed was that of the youngest Miss Findlater — the gushing one — who came romping over to them, her hands filled with baby-linen, and plumped down on the end of the sofa beside Miss Whittaker.

Unnatural Death Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 1988

When the baby comes, the place will be filled with old women and baby-linen and medical apparatus, and you will have all the anxieties of a father added to the discomforts of a neglected husband.

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Here they passed the time, and were gradually robbed of every thing they had in the world, even to the baby-linen which Mrs. Page had prepared for an expected infant.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

The baby-linen, &c. of Governor Bradford of Plymouth colony.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various

Prince's cradle -- when every man and woman throughout the empire believe themselves making royal pap and airing royal baby-linen -- then, whatever fortune we may have we may be safe from the fate of poor WEEKS, the

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various

I skipped a gramophone emporium and a baby-linen shop and entered a fishmonger's.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919 Various