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Definition of Charmeuse
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charmeuse
Literary usage of Charmeuse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Interior Decoration: Its Principles and Practice by Frank Alvah Parsons (1915)
"A tightly woven linen looks and feels firm, more decided, harder, less yielding
and less graceful in its possibilities than charmeuse silk, the qualities of ..."
2. Pear Culture: A Manual for the Propagation, Planting, Cultivation, and by Thomas Warren Field (1858)
"... A beautiful, excellent Belgian Pear, more commonly known as Fondante charmeuse.
It is vigorous and productive, ..."
3. Clothing: Choice, Care, Cost by Mary Schenck Woolman (1920)
"... and if overweighted deteriorate rapidly in the folds. Surah silks are frequently
weighted. Crepe meteor, China silk, wash silk, foulard, charmeuse, ..."
4. Bulletin by Montana Historical Society, Henry E. Legler Regional Branch, Library, Chicago Public Library, Chicago West Side Historical Society (1916)
"... messaline, moire, peau de cygne, peau de soie, pongee, satin, Shantung,
charmeuse, faille, Georgette crepe, Canton crepe and surah. ..."
5. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"Aggie, with mind submerged in the vexing problem of how to contribute the latest
edict of fickle fashion to last season's plum- colored charmeuse and ..."
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