nankeen

English

Noun

nankeen (countable and uncountable, plural nankeens)

  1. A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
    • He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat. — Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By and Other Tales, translated by L. and A. Maude
    • She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

Derived terms
  • nankeen heron
  • nankeen kestrel
  • nankeen night heron
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.