NANKEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nankeen mean? 

• NANKEEN (noun)
  The noun NANKEEN has 1 sense:

1. a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color

  Familiarity information: NANKEEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NANKEEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("nankeen" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

For example, I am taking you to-day to see the Prince in a nankeen vest.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Five people out of six would die—of course—of that woman in nankeen with the flannel petticoat.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For some time Mrs. Crupp could only lay her hand upon her nankeen bosom, and fortify herself against returning pain with sips of her medicine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have put out your Sunday clothes with the nankeen vest, since you are to see the Prince to-morrow, and you will wear your brown silk stockings and buckle shoes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I objected to having my bed made at five o'clock in the afternoon—which I do still think an uncomfortable arrangement—one motion of her hand towards the same nankeen region of wounded sensibility was enough to make me falter an apology.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Within, a week St. James’s Street and the Mall will be full of nankeen waistcoats.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I rang the bell impatiently, after half-a-dozen unavailing modest pulls, and she appeared at last—which was not by any means to be relied upon—she would appear with a reproachful aspect, sink breathless on a chair near the door, lay her hand upon her nankeen bosom, and become so ill, that I was glad, at any sacrifice of brandy or anything else, to get rid of her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was not until we had rung three or four times that we could prevail on Mrs. Crupp to communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stout lady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What an evening, when Mrs. Crupp, coming in to take away the broth-basin, produced one kidney on a cheese-plate as the entire remains of yesterday's feast, and I was really inclined to fall upon her nankeen breast and say, in heartfelt penitence, Oh, Mrs. Crupp, Mrs. Crupp, never mind the broken meats!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“If I was ever to be a lady, I'd give him a sky-blue coat with diamond buttons, nankeen trousers, a red velvet waistcoat, a cocked hat, a large gold watch, a silver pipe, and a box of money.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)