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Thin silk cloth
Answer for the clue "Thin silk cloth ", 6 letters:
pongee
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Word definitions for pongee in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A soft unbleached silk, from China or India, from silkworms that feed on oak leaves.
Usage examples of pongee.
Now I have here a piece of pongee silk, cut from a woman's automobile-coat.
I find that the marks on that fatal bullet correspond precisely with those on the bullet fired through the pongee coat.
Vernice came in in her black pongee bathrobe and her white legs, the dive-caller script in her hands.
She rolled out of the bed, picked up her pongee robe from the floor and put it on.
Or look out through the pongee curtains on the distant phantom lights of downtown.
The branches of the oaks looked like ghosts beyond the pongee curtains.
Presently patches of cultivation became evident: yams, pulse, yellow-pod, tall white stalks of cereal molk, red pongee bushes burdened with purple-black berries.
He wore a cream pongee shirt with a green necktie that had slashes of red.