Definition of "nainsook" [nain•sook]

• A soft, light cotton material, often with a woven stripe. (noun)

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• "Slips are usually made of some very soft material such as nainsook, batiste, pearline, or sheer lawn cloth."
• "“‘And yourself, she thought in her nainsook, you want him to be Uncle Remus goes to war, then the old happy fishing patriot.’”"
• "At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved."