Definition of "marseilles" [mar•seilles]

• A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles, France. (noun)

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• "They wore grey camlet riding habits, with large black Birmingham buttons (to mark the slight mourning for their deceased brother-in-law): while petticoats, fastened as pins did or did not their office, shewed more of the quilted marseilles and stuff beneath, than the precision of the toilet required: both of which, from their contact with the water of the bog, merited the epithet of "Slappersallagh," bestowed on their wearers by Terence"
• ""I'll buy you a white marseilles bedspread on our way back from the walk," he offered gravely."
• "And then he saw the Colonel, in white marseilles, smoking a cigar."