Definition of "delaine" [de•laine]

• A kind of fabric for women's dresses. (noun)

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• "Smoothing it carefully down in front, Martha was disappointed to see that it did not reach nearly so far over the brown delaine dress as she had expected."
• "And she glanced down along her unbuttoned jacket, over the faded delaine dress, to her shoes tied with strings held together by countless knots."
• "This red delaine I wore to a spelling bee when I was about sixteen and I got a book for a prize for standing up next to last."