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Where it once finished muslins and poplins, Padiham now boasts a fine big washing-machine plant, is building a huge radio factory that will soon employ 3,000 men.
From Time Magazine Archive
“What’s the use of asking that, when you know we shall wear our poplins, because we haven’t got anything else?” answered Jo with her mouth full.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
“Fanny: ‘And we shall see those dreadful silver poplins again; they must be intimately acquainted with the cane-work of all the rout-seats in London.’
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by Frith, William Powell
Brocards, satin princesse, antique moires, Irish poplins, and heavy chin� silks, such as were worn by the belles who saw Washington inaugurated, are now in vogue.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
Irish linens, Irish poplins and Irish lace were being shipped to New York—it could not be a loss!
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen by Hubbard, Elbert
