jaconet
Americannoun
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a cotton fabric of light weight, usually finished as cambric, lawn, organdy, voile, etc., used in the manufacture of clothing and bandages.
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a cotton fabric with one glazed surface, used as a lining for the spines of books.
noun
Etymology
Origin of jaconet
1760–70; < Urdu jagannāthī, named after Jagannāthpūrī in Odisha, India, where the cloth was first made
Example Sentences
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Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.
From Literature
The end paper makes a section in itself, which, like all others, is taken up in the sewing—it has previously been attached to the third section by means of strips of jaconet.
From Project Gutenberg
Sometimes it looked like long cloth; at others like mull muslin or jaconet; oftenest it was a species of thick cotton net.
From Project Gutenberg
It is of white jaconet muslin, trimmed with lace and rows of pink ribbon of different widths.
From Project Gutenberg
If the back of the signature is badly worn, mend it by guarding with jaconet on the outside, or by pasting a strip of bond paper down through the center of the fold.
From Project Gutenberg
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