Definition of "pekin" []

• A striped or figured silk fabric. (noun)
• A large white duck of a Chinese breed, widely raised in the United States for food. (noun)

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• "Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been obliged to hoist this bergere up to the first story through the window, as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned among the possibilities in the way of furniture."
• "February 24, 2008 at 6:52 am mum, i feelz a pekin on my hed."
• "He was, perhaps, discontented at being put in communication with a pekin, and thought that Lord Steyne should have sent him a Colonel at the very least."