tussore
Example Sentences
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Among the first to appear aft was an immense individual, wearing a loose tussore suit, a huge pith topee, and a black and yellow cummerbund.
From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary)
Margot, in yellow tussore, had hair a shade darker and curlier, and her eyes were hazel.
From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame
Save for the long French windows, which were now, at midnight, covered with curtains of green tussore silk, there was nothing distinctively foreign about the room.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger
These were of light yellow tussore, with a white double collar and a small red tie, sharp-edged white cuffs and highly polished brown boots.
From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
Hannah danced little, a voluntary wallflower, for she looked radiant in tussore silk, and there was an air of refinement about the slight, pretty girl that attracted the beaux of the Club.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel
