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Usage examples of nankeen.

He was dressed with all the English peculiarity, namely, in a blue coat, with gilt buttons and high collar, in the fashion of 1811, a white kerseymere waistcoat, and nankeen pantaloons, three inches too short, but which were prevented by straps from slipping up to the knee.

He looked unusually neat in a frilled shirt and nankeens, and even Nidget, at his heels, had been haphazardly groomed.

She knew exactly how lean and firm his body would be beneath the fine linen and nankeen, knew how his skin would feel beneath her fingers if she were to reach out and slip her hand into the open placket of his lawn shirt.

That was true, as regarded the bright nankeens, the blue coat with gold buttons, and the showiest of cambric kerchiefs swathing him up to the very chin.

A sailor's eye would have seen that she was even trimmer than usual, with her furled sails skinned up in the bunt and her head-braces lying in perfect Flemish fakes, while even a landsman would have noticed that the officers had abandoned their usual working clothes of easy nankeen pantaloons and light jackets for undress uniform and Hessian boots, while the bargemen were already in their snowy trousers, bright blue jackets and best straw hats, ready to row their Captain ashore as soon as he was invited.

With his face tanned like leather, and in his fine blue coat and nankeen breeches, to most people Allday would seem the perfect example of Jack Tar, the sure shield against the French or any other enemy who dared to come against His Britannic Majesty's navy.

Wearing the uniform of a representative, nankeen breeches, blue coat, tri-colored sash and plumed hat,[165] holding in his hand a bouquet of flowers and grain, he marches at the head of the Convention and officiates on the platform.

Before reaching the place where Taras sat Nekhludoff stopped between the seats near a reverend-looking old man with a white beard and nankeen coat, who was talking with a young woman in peasant dress.