tussore

Example Sentences

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Among the first to appear aft was an immense individual, wearing a loose tussore suit, a huge pith topee, and a black and yellow cummerbund.

From The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary)

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

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

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

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

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel