tussore

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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

She was drawing on her tan gloves now, and unfurling a parasol of tussore silk with a heavy lace fall.

From Wild Kitty by Meade, L. T.

We had frocks of tussore silk, with bouquets of orchids and Penelope Boothby caps.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

His eyes ran over her close fitting tussore dress, her white kid gloves.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel

The huge balloon, made of tussore silk, cruised about for some time, then drifted away with the breeze, and came to grief in landing.

From The Mastery of the Air by Claxton, William J.