Nankeen

Smart young men about Canton in Nankeen tights and peacocks’ tails.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

PSFK Shanghai Talks with Chinese-Inspired Fashion Brand "Nankeen"

PSFK 2008

Nankeen trousers, displaying more white fancy-work over the ankles, and purple morocco slippers, adorned his lower extremities.

The Woman in White 2003

Johnson sailed to China with an American company doing the cloth trade, Nankeen silk.

the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

Nankeen -- A peculiar fabric of a pale dull yellow or orange color, woven out of the fibrous tissue which lies between the outer and sap-wood of a tree or shrub that grows in the East Indies and especially in China.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

The Nankeen bird should have his feathers edged with black, his wings bordered with purple, his tail-feathers black, his hackles slightly studded with purple, and his breast black, with white edges to the feathers.

The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin

The Nankeen coloured and the black are the greatest favourites.

The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering William Martin

Nankeen china while her husband smoked long cigars with Mijnheer on the veranda, but that was all her own fault.

The Good Comrade Una Lucy Silberrad 1913

Whatever regret the others had was softened to them by the likeness of their flitting to many of those removals for the summer which they made in the late spring when they left Nankeen Square; they were going directly into the country instead of to the seaside first; but Lapham, who usually remained in town long after they had gone, knew all the difference.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878

Mrs. Lapham was even better satisfied with their bargain than the Colonel himself, and they had lived in Nankeen Square for twelve years.

The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 1878