tussore

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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)

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

And it was so funny to see men in suits of blue serge, tweeds, or tussore silk, whirling round with ladies in muslins of every lovely colour.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)

It was written in every line of his drawn fever-worn face, and in his wide fever-lit eyes, and in the clutch of his long yellow hands upon his tussore silk dressing-gown.

From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Cholmondeley, Mary

He wore a very new school blazer and real cricket trousers, with a flannel shirt and school tie that gave Roy's tussore shirt and soft brown bow almost a girlish air.

From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud