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Tarlatan   Listen
noun
Tarlatan  n.  A kind of thin, transparent muslin, used for dresses.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tarlatan" Quotes from Famous Books



... manners to mutter—nurse always talked to herself when she was "put out"—and, as I stood in much awe of Lady Elizabeth, I did not like to complain aloud of her arrangements. So I turned my doll with a sharp flounce in my arms, and muttered behind her tarlatan skirts that "I did think we were to have had ...
— Melchior's Dream and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... and ermine wrap, which cost you two hundred dollars, I would just like to ask you if it pays to dress for him. Women know this from a sorrowful experience. Girls have to learn it for themselves. A ball-dress of white tarlatan, made up over white paper cambric, with a white sash, will satisfy a man quite as well as a Paris muslin trimmed with a hundred dollars' worth of Valenciennes lace and made up over silk. Most of them ...
— From a Girl's Point of View • Lilian Bell

... said Laura. 'Oh, if she were only a brunette instead of a blonde, we could festoon the tent with that yellow tarlatan I ...
— A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story • Kate Douglas Wiggin



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