English to Xhosa Meaning of nankeen - nankeen


Nankeen :
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Definitions of nankeen in English
Noun(1) a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color
Examples of nankeen in English
(1) Suspended below this, clad in blue jacket, white waistcoat and nankeen pantaloons, and waving a silk French tricolour, stood Garnerin in a small basket.(2) Back in New Haven in July 1799 the cargo of Chinese goods (tea, nankeen , silk, and porcelain) realized more than $200,000 for the investors.(3) A waitress neatly dressed in traditional Chinese nankeen jacket at Tianle Restaurant serves ganshao luyou, spicy perch.(4) a waistcoat and knee breeches of nankeen(5) Long-backed, thin, ‘lank as a leafless elm,’ a New England coach driver might look as though a high wind would blow him away, yet he would wear nankeens and low shoes in winter weather, and was not fragile but lusty.(6) Besides, a goat might butt Peregrine - tumble him, with his chaste nankeens , his sherry-colour body-coat, and his certainties into the scuppers.(7) The Oneida was absent seventeen months, and returned with a rich cargo of teas, silks, and nankeens , so profitable that it was talked of in the counting-rooms of all our ports.(8) Gilded youths ride in the Bois, wearing yellow, brown or scarlet frockcoats and tight-fitting white nankeens .(9) By 1785 types of cotton fabric generally available included corduroys, jeans, nankeens , erminetts, thicksets, corded tabby and jeanette.
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