tussore

Example Sentences

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Save for the long French windows, which were now, at midnight, covered with curtains of green tussore silk, there was nothing distinctively foreign about the room.

From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

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)

Hilda's is a tussore silk, frightfully sweet, and I had a blouse with a lot of Carrickmacross lace on it.

From Lalage's Lovers by Birmingham, George A.

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

He made her his bow, plying a broad straw hat and a billowy handkerchief of tussore silk.

From Where the Pavement Ends by Russell, John