Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fine woolen cloth with a fancy twill weave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cassimere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
cassimere .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete spelling of
cashmere . - noun Alternative spelling of
cassimere .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The fashion of the time required men to wear at a ball white kerseymere breeches and silk stockings.
Domestic Peace 2007
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The fashion of the time required men to wear at a ball white kerseymere breeches and silk stockings.
Domestic Peace 2007
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The tailor loved the little boy with all his soul; he attended his mother to her churching, and the child to the font; and, as a present to his little godson on his christening, he sent two yards of the finest white kerseymere in his shop, to make him a cloak.
Mens Wives 2006
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Their minds were haunted by a spirit in kerseymere in the evening they walked together in the fields.
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Mr. Scully had a brand-new blue coat and brass buttons, buff waistcoat, white kerseymere tights, pumps with large rosettes, and pink silk stockings.
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And his wife took care that his rich red hood, kerseymere small-clothes, and black silk stockings upon calves of dignity, were such that his congregation scorned the surgeons all the way to Beverley.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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He was dressed in a military-style frock coat over a kerseymere waistcoat in brown and buff stripes, cut in the Hussar style, and buff nankin pantaloons, so that even in civilian clothes, he still looked every inch the soldier.
The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996
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His yellow and blue striped kerseymere waistcoat framed a neck cloth of starched muslin.
The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996
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Her voice was muffled against his kerseymere frock coat
The Last Gamble Nichols, Mary 1996
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She was forever telling him he should dress more stylishly, and the dark green kerseymere coat had been the first success in her long and difficult campaign.
Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992
chained_bear commented on the word kerseymere
"...the midshipmen were excused their thick kerseymere waistcoats..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 285
February 23, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word kerseymere
from Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
July 19, 2009