Slips are usually made of some very soft material such as nainsook, batiste, pearline, or sheer lawn cloth. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)
“‘And yourself, she thought in her nainsook, you want him to be Uncle Remus goes to war, then the old happy fishing patriot.’” ❋ T.J. Forrester (2011)
At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The striped and plaid nainsook are used for the same purposes. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
I went everywhere for your French nainsook, but every shop was just out of it. ❋ Lilian Bell (N/A)
The finest and softest of French and Scotch flannels, French linen, dimity, nainsook, and India silk are always dainty and they should be made up very simply with little trimming, but that of the finest. ❋ Kate Heintz Watson (N/A)
During the summer months nainsook caps or other thin materials are to be preferred to the heavy crocheted caps that are sometimes worn by babies. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)
She wore a white duck skirt, a soft nainsook blouse open at the throat, the sailor collar knotted with a red silk scarf. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The framework and ribs were made entirely of Riga pine; the surface fabric was nainsook. ❋ Evelyn Charles Vivian (1914)
When he had gone, she cleaned all of her toilet silver, and ran ribbons into nicely embroidered nainsook things, and put her pillows in the sun and tied up her head and swept and dusted, and when she had made everything shining, she had a bit of lunch on a tray, and then she washed her hair. ❋ Temple Bailey (1906)
She wore a frock of white embroidered nainsook and a leghorn covered with white feathers. ❋ Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1902)
My charming young mistress was piquantly graceful in all her actions -- every motion was a grace -- and the dainty naivete with which she lifted the little cloud of snowy lace and nainsook, themselves so delicately suggestive of unspeakable beauties, was the perfection of maidenly finesse. ❋ No Author (1894)
Mrs. East, though warned that nights would be chill, have come clothed in silk and gossamer, and have brought low-necked nightgowns of nainsook trimmed with lace. ❋ Unknown (1889)
That hour she was expected to pass, and did pass, in providing herself with all sorts of intimate daintiness of nainsook, lace, and ribbon, too sacred even for ❋ Unknown (1889)
Had these horrors been suggested at the start, they would have been rejected with fury, in favour of lace and nainsook; but the contribution has made a _success fou_, at a crisis when vanity has been forgotten, and the girls are employing their prettiest frocks as bed covering. ❋ Unknown (1889)
Of co'se, me bein 'de fust singer, dat entitles me to wear de highest plumage, an' Frances, she knows dat, an 'she' lowed to me she was gwine wear dat white nainsook lawn you gi'n 'er, an' des a plain secondary hat, an 'at de p'inted time we all three got to rise an' courtesy to de congergation, an 'den bu'st into song. ❋ Ruth McEnery Stuart (1886)
One was cambric, one was fine lawn or nainsook, and one of dimity. ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)
And Jill in the softest pink raiment sat like the perfect heart of a perfect rose in the scented coolness of the pink chamber, and passed the days designing garments of which it is useless to give a description, seeing that the womenfolk in Northern climes have only two notes on which to ring the changes of their wardrobe; the long, shroud-looking thing in silk or crepe de Chine or good honest nainsook, picked out in different coloured ribbons, or the romance killing, stove-pipe giving effect of the masculine pyjama. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)
