Crossword clues for pongee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pongee \Pon*gee"\, n. [Of East Indian origin.] A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.
Wiktionary
n. A soft unbleached silk, from China or India, from silkworms that feed on oak leaves.
WordNet
n. a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation)
Wikipedia
Pongee is a soft thin woven cloth. In the early 20th century, pongee was an important export from China to the United States. Pongee is still woven in silk by many mills across China, especially along the banks of the Yangtze at mills in Sichuan, Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. Generally it varies in weight from 36 to about 50gm/sq m. In lighter variants, it is called Paj. It is used as a blouse weight or lining silk.
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.