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Definition of Percalines
1. percaline [n] - See also: percaline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Percalines
Literary usage of Percalines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teachers College Record by Columbia University. Teachers College (1916)
"... mercerized percalines at twelve and one-half cents and sateen at twenty cents
for the costumes of the gentlefolk and Shakespeare players. ..."
2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1849)
"... ad valorem in Spanish, and 42 in foreign ships. Cotton lace, plain, worked,
or figured. 43 78 62 60 Ditto, embroidered by hand 8760 10600 percalines, ..."
3. Pageants and Pageantry by Esther Willard Bates (1912)
"Woolen goods are best represented by canton flannel, cottons by cheesecloth,
silks by mercerized percalines, ..."
4. Textiles and Clothing by Ellen Beers McGowan, Charlotte Augusta Waite, A. (1919)
"firm full finish by the addition of starch, and by much pressing ; the gloss of
percalines, dress linings and cambric by treatment with mucilage, ..."
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