"Turkey red" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indicated by a farmer not far from Chicago in his use of table coverings, as follows: For the family, oil cloth; for the school teacher, turkey red; for the ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... and Katy's—(Bel had Aunt Blin's great flat-topped one now, with its cushion and flounce of Turkey red; and Kate had speedily stitched up a cover for hers to match, of cloth that Mrs. Scherman gave her) stood one each side the chimney,—in the recesses. A red and white patchwork quilt, done in stars, Bel's own work before she ever came ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... geraniums in the windows;—and when a visitor arrives, the hostess begins to groan as though an enemy were approaching. What chance is there for love-making, and amours in such a place? Sometimes it happened that they would not even admit me. Their maid-servant, a robust peasant-woman, in a Turkey red cotton sarafan,[63] and pendulous breasts, would place herself across the path in the anteroom and roar: 'Whither away?' No, I positively cannot understand what made her poison herself. She must have grown tired of life," Kupfer philosophically ...
— A Reckless Character - And Other Stories • Ivan Turgenev
... Turkey red with a vertical white crescent (the closed portion is toward the hoist side) and white five-pointed star centered just ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... way, make a red room by using Turkey red for your draperies; or a blue room by using blue chintz. Let your chintz be of a small pattern, and one that ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe |
