Usage examples:
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She
was
as
proud
in
cambric
and
calico
and
nankeen
as
Harriet
is
to-
day
in
white
tulle
and
organdy.
T. De Witt Talmage in "Around The Tea-Table".
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Young
women,
old
in
the
vices
of
the
commonest
and
worst
life,
were
expected
to
profess
themselves
enthralled
by
the
good
child's
book,
the
Adventures
of
Little
Margery,
who
resided
in
the
village
cottage
by
the
mill;
severely
reproved
and
morally
squashed
the
miller,
when
she
was
five
and
he
was
fifty;
divided
her
porridge
with
singing
birds;
denied
herself
a
new
nankeen
bonnet,
on
the
ground
that
the
turnips
did
not
wear
nankeen
bonnets,
neither
did
the
sheep,
who
ate
them;
who
plaited
straw
and
delivered
the
dreariest
orations
to
all
comers,
at
all
sorts
of
unseasonable
times.
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes in "Dickens As an Educator".
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Years
and
years
passed
by,
and
young
Tom
Slingsby
was
forgotten;
when,
one
mellow
Sunday
afternoon
in
autumn,
a
thin
man,
somewhat
advanced
in
life,
with
a
coat
out
at
elbows,
a
pair
of
old
nankeen
gaiters,
and
a
few
things
tied
in
a
handkerchief
and
slung
on
the
end
of
a
stick,
was
seen
loitering
through
the
village.
Washington Irving in "Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists".
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The
captain
appeared
at
the
head
of
the
ladder;
a
red
apple-
cheeked
man
in
shirt-
sleeves
and
clean
white
nankeen
breeches,
who
looked
like
nothing
so
much
as
an
overgrown
schoolboy.
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch in "Hetty Wesley".