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Pongee

noun
1.
A soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation).





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"Pongee" Quotes from Famous Books



... washer-woman didn't destroy myself. And when I saw the lot you sent! It was like a white sale! Also the quinine which I tasted just for luck, and the soap in the little violet wrapper made me quite homesick. Especially was I glad to get socks and pongee suits, and shirts. I really was getting desperate. God knows what I would have done ...
— Adventures and Letters • Richard Harding Davis
... his clothes, stained with tar and dirt, shrunken and wrinkled by sea-water. His shoes were fastened with bits of tarred rope; he was wearing a red flannel shirt with bone buttons which the boatkeeper on the pilot boat had given him, tied at the neck with a purple handkerchief of pongee silk; his hair was long, and a week's growth of beard was ...
— Vandover and the Brute • Frank Norris


Words linked to "Pongee" :   material, fabric, textile, cloth


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