tussore

Example Sentences

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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

I saw before me a man with a large tussore cloak on, a field-glass strapped on his shoulders, a grey bowler hat, and a red, happy face, with a little pointed beard.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah

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

He made her his bow, plying a broad straw hat and a billowy handkerchief of tussore silk.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John

And it was so funny to see men in suits of blue serge, tweeds, or tussore silk, whirling round with ladies in muslins of every lovely colour.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)