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- noun Plural form of
cassimere .
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Examples
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Here, and in all the neighboring places, the manufacture of broadcloths and cassimeres is carried on extensively.
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-- Superfine, of plain brilliant colours, not mixtures, and cassimeres.
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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Such goods as beavers, kerseys, meltons, and fancy cassimeres are seldom fulled more than one-sixth of their woven width, while worsted goods are shrunk but a small fraction of their woven width.
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The stock includes the latest styles in woolens, cassimeres, checks, stripes, fancy vestings etc., and from these are made to order, the very best of custom made garments in style after the latest New York and London fashion plates.
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Wool could not be sold, and the shearing for that year was taken to the town of Nelson, in Cheshire County, and manufactured into satinets and cassimeres, on shares.
Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman William Elliot Griffis 1885
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"Wipe that off of your own, sah, first," cried the other, dexterously turning a fresh plate of bean soup over the dandy's "spwotless cassimeres."
The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Mary Ashley Townsend 1866
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"Yes, sah! zat is, every day he puts his disgwusting digits on my spotless cassimeres, and asks for money!"
The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans Mary Ashley Townsend 1866
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The fat man hitched around uneasy in his chair and said they all seemed to have forgotten the principal event of that excursion, and that was how he tried to lift a bull dog over the fence by the teeth, which had become entangled in a certain portion of his wardrobe that should not be mentioned, and how he left a sample of his trousers in the possession of the dog, and how the farmer came to the college the next day with his eyes blacked, and a piece of trousers cloth done up in a paper, and wanted the professor to try and match it with the pants of some of the divinity students, and how he had to put on a pair of nankeen pants and hide his cassimeres in the boat house until the watermelon scrape blew over and he could get them mended.
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The fat man hitched around uneasy in his chair and said they all seemed to have forgotten the principal event of that excursion, and that was how he tried to lift a bull dog over the fence by the teeth, which had become entangled in a certain portion of his wardrobe that should not be mentioned, and how he left a sample of his trousers in the possession of the dog, and how the farmer came to the college the next day with his eyes blacked, and a piece of trousers cloth done up in a paper, and wanted the professor to try and match it with the pants of some of the divinity students, and how he had to put on a pair of nankeen pants and hide his cassimeres in the boat house until the watermelon scrape blew over and he could get them mended.
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878
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If sugar pays a large duty, or tea and coffee, or silks and satins, broadcloths and cassimeres, by refusing to use those articles, and inducing others to do the same, would not the revenue of the nation be affected? and when the actual tax-gatherer in the shape of the merchant, holds out his seductive wares for our purchase, could we not exhibit to him our pledge to "totally abstain" from the use of such articles; as the temperance man shows his ticket, as a reason why he should not partake of the intoxicating cup?
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