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Example Sentences
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He has a provoking habit of nestling in your moresques or your chinoises,—those wide light garments you put on before taking your siesta or retiring for the night.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
Therefore, on entering one's room for the siesta, one strips, puts on the light moresques and the chinoise, and dozes in comfort.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
Yzore can make two pair of moresques and two chinoises in a single day upon her machine.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
But Yzore does not depend upon calendering alone for a living: she earns much more by the manufacture of moresques and of chinoises than by painting Madras turbans….
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
Everybody in Martinique who can afford it wears moresques and chinoises.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
