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Definition of Marquisettes
1. marquisette [n] - See also: marquisette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marquisettes
Literary usage of Marquisettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Textiles: A Handbook for the Student and the Consumer by Mary Schenck Woolman, Ellen Beers Mcgowan (1920)
"In curved warp weaving there are gauzes, lenos, and marquisettes. In the designing
and drafting for the weaving of textiles, whether by hand or power, ..."
2. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"... marquisettes, scrims, etc. Complete estimates for making and putting up
curtains, including length of windows, amount of edge and insertion, ..."
3. Clothing: Choice, Care, Cost by Mary Schenck Woolman (1922)
"The tunics which are worn over the slip are made of pile fabrics, of soft cottons,
of crepes, chiffons, marquisettes, or lace (Fig. 13). ..."
4. Department Store Occupations by Iris Prouty O'Leary (1916)
"... marquisettes, scrims, etc. Complete estimates for making and putting up
curtains, including length of windows, amount of edge and insertion, ..."
5. Silk Manufacturing and Its Problems by James Chittick (1913)
"Wide Variety of Attractive Goods Made. The variety of goods now made by these
cotton mills is surprising. marquisettes ..."
6. A Textbook on Retail Selling by Helen Rich Norton (1919)
"Many less than half price! Hundreds upon hundreds of yards! More weaves than you
could count. Printed, Jacquard, and silk-striped marquisettes, ..."
7. A Cotton Fabrics Glossary by Frank P. Bennett, & Co (1914)
"marquisettes are one of such fabrics, for they are usually designated as plain
gauze by the manufacturer. Gauze, considered as a manufacturing term, ..."
8. Modern Junior Mathematics by Marie Gugle (1920)
"Offers wonderful savings on all drapery purchases RANGING FROM 20% TO 40% Note
the following: 400 marquisettes, white, cream, or ecru, ..."
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