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Answer for the clue "Dress fabric ", 6 letters:
poplin
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Word definitions for poplin in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a ribbed fabric used in clothing and upholstery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A man in a blue poplin raincoat was standing outside the Delicatessen waving a bundle of show-biz newspapers. ▪ Alexander Fabrics kindly supplied us with a combination of cotton gingham, poplin , crepe de Chine, taffeta and silk ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, -- used especially for women's dresses.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of corded fabric, 1710, from French papeline "cloth of fine silk and worsted" (1660s), probably from Provençal papalino , fem. of papalin "of or belonging to the pope," from Medieval Latin papalis "papal" (see papal ). The reference is to Avignon, ...
Usage examples of poplin.
A tall man, dressed in cuffless khaki trousers with a lightweight poplin jacket over a white shirt got out from the right side.
After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.
I love you more than all the flannelette and calico, candlewick, dimity, crash and merino, tussore, cretonne, crepon, muslin, poplin, ticking and twill in the whole Cloth Hall of the world.
A big half-white, half-Hawaiian police lieutenant in the mustard worsted poplin of the city force, and with a build like a beachboy, was in charge of the expedition.
Cass, dressed in a drab grey high-wasted poplin gown of indeterminate style, with a small Quakerish linen collar, could not have cared less what she was wearing.
Her dress was a stiff sort of a shinin' poplin, made tight acrost the chest and elboes.
And our wool that was sold in Rome in the time of Juvenal and our flax and our damask from the looms of Antrim and our Limerick lace, our tanneries and our white flint glass down there by Ballybough and our Huguenot poplin that we have since Jacquard de Lyon and our woven silk and our Foxford tweeds and ivory raised point from the Carmelite convent in New Ross, nothing like it in the whole wide world.
It was twilight, breezeless and humid, and he could feel the sweat seeping through his white knit shirt and sticking to his poplin trousers.
There was an older, dressed-up crowd here, and although his blue poplin leisure suit was out of place, he had once picked up a forty-year-old widow from Cincinnati, and she had taken him up to her room.
He was wearing a tan poplin suit, Oxford blue shirt, and fine of the large, colorfully designed bow ties he was addicted to.
A dark-grey cotton poplin raincoat, calfskin oxford shoes, tweedy jacket, and a striped English old school tie that had been invented by an American designer.
They are men spangled with epaulettes, toggles, tabs, and insignias, the breezy rapists from the Nautica ads, cool and criminal in their poplins, shellacked with light, but they know they’re in costume, that they’ve made an effort that other men, men like Tom, aren’t forced to make.
He was dressed in a tan poplin suit with single-breasted jacket and pleated pants.
The materials she selected for consideration were excellent-some warm twills and light poplins for everyday wear, some fine silks and velvets for formal occasions-and the colours she advised were right for Terisa's hair and eyes and skin.