Crossword clues for nankin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also nankin.]
A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton ( Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.
An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.
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pl. Trousers made of nankeen.
--Ld. Lytton.Nankeen bird (Zo["o]l.), the Australian night heron ( Nycticorax Caledonicus); -- called also quaker.
Usage examples of "nankin".
Soo-chow the Taeping resistance was really broken, and soon Nankin and Hangchow were the only important places left to them, though plenty of fighting was still to be done.
At Nankin the weary and dispirited survivors realized that Japan was now also at war with the United States and that Osaka and Nagoya were in the hands of Communist Committees.
A Chinese Vindication Society organized an air raid on Osaka and Tokio in 1935 after the great Green Cross raid on Nankin in that year.
She had bombed Nankin twice on an extensive scale, Pekin before its surrender, and Wuchang and Hankow, with Yellow Cross bombs.
Nankin cotton), circumnutation of hypocotyl, 22 --, movement of cotyledon, 22, 23 --, sleep of leaves, 324 --, arboreum (?
A fan painted by Vanloo, a bit of rare Nankin (he had caught from Charles Lamb the love of old china), or an undoctored stipple of Bartolozzi, gave him delight in the handling, though he might not aspire to ownership.
The great dynasty of Tang had passed into decay by the tenth century, and after a phase of division into warring states, three main empires, that of Kin in the north with Pekin as its capital and that of Sung in the south with a capital at Nankin, and Hsia in the centre, remain.