tartan
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He comes upon seven hundred yards of white tarletan, and fourteen pounds of hissing, blazing lycopodium!
From Second Book of Tales by Field, Eugene
Miss Blake stripped away every vestige of tarletan, and let the fine oil paintings display themselves unveiled to the public eye.
From The Governess by Chickering, Charles R.
Thus it formed a valence which allowed the tarletan skirt to show in front and on the sides.
From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre
It was dressed in pink tarletan, and had a pair of jeweled earrings in its exceedingly life-like ears.
From Rosemary and Rue by Amber
On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty.
From The Lodger by Lowndes, Marie Belloc
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