NANKEEN

Nankeen

Nankeen, also called Nankeen cloth, is a kind of pale yellowish cloth, originally made at Nanjing from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton which is then dyed. Also in the plural a piece or variety of this cloth.

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nankeen

Noun

  1. a type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.


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