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n. A sheer fabric woven of silk or cotton and wool, used for women's apparel.
Usage examples of "barege".
Jonesville Depot in good sperits and a barege delaine dress, cream color, and a hat of the same.
She did her hair according to the directions of the hairdresser, and put on the barege dress spread out upon the bed.
He would send her a black barege, twelve yards, just enough to make a gown.
When, for the second time, Madame de Maintenon took the Duc du Maine to Barege, she returned by way of the Landes, Guienne, and Poitou.
Marcella Eubanks did cry on the way home and had to put down her green barege veil.
Mimi was seized with a fit of hysterical laughter, and skipped about like a kid, waving a barege scarf.
Belgian, as an elderly red-faced lady, with fuzzy sandy hair, wearing a dingy, many-flounced lilac barege gown, came towards them along the gravel path.
Belgian friend, coming up to him at the end of a polka, with the elderly Countess, who with her dingy lilac barege gown exchanged for a dingier lilac silk, and her sandy hair fuzzier than ever, had been dancing vigorously.
She has on her blue barege dress, which implies her unvarying constancy.
And the mornin' we started she met us at the Jonesville Depot in good sperits and a barege delaine dress, cream color, and a hat of the same.
She wore a gown of mauve barege, little reddish brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, whose name, canezou, a corruption of the words quinze aout, pronounced after the fashion of the Canebiere, signifies fine weather, heat, and midday.
She wore a dress of mauve barege, little reddish-brown buskins, the strings of which were crossed over her fine, white, open-worked stockings, and that species of spencer, invented at Marseilles, the name of which, canezou, a corruption of the words quinze août in the Canebière dialect, signifies fine weather, warmth, and noon.