Definition of "kincob" []

• India silk brocaded with flowers in silver or gold. (noun)

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• "We saw much of the embroidered fabrics known as "kincob" (properly,"
• "And when this was done, she composedly ordered her pipe and threw herself lazily at length upon a pile of kincob cushions, her posture the more careless since she knew herself secure from observation; the garden being private to her use."
• "In the few hours which had elapsed since the ghastly discovery, the brocades and kincob of the audience-tents had been torn down and distributed, the cushions deprived of their rich covers, and the very _gaddi_ on which the Rajah's body had been found stripped of its damask."