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nankin

nankin


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nankeen  \Nan*keen"\,  n.  [So  called  from  its  being  originally 
  manufactured  at  Nankin,  in  China.]  [Written  also  {nankin}.] 
  1.  A  species  of  cloth,  of  a  firm  texture,  originally  brought 
  from  China,  made  of  a  species  of  cotton  ({Gossypium 
  religiosum})  that  is  naturally  of  a  brownish  yellow  color 
  quite  indestructible  and  permanent. 
 
  2.  An  imitation  of  this  cloth  by  artificial  coloring. 
 
  3.  pl  Trousers  made  of  nankeen.  --Ld.  Lytton. 
 
  {Nankeen  bird}  (Zo["o]l.),  the  Australian  night  heron 
  ({Nycticorax  Caledonicus});  --  called  also  {quaker}.