batistes

Voilles, batistes and even somethinglabeledas an eyelet had a fine enough weave and pattern to pass.

Choosing the dress and materials maryrobinette 2010

"Oh," Katje groans, somewhere under a pile of their batistes and brocade, "Slothrop, you pig."

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

There are so many materials to choose from that all tastes and purses can be suited; nets, thin silk and gauzes; scrims and batistes; cotton and silk crepes, muslin or dotted Swiss, cheesecloth, soleil cloth, madras, and a host of other fascinating fabrics which may be used in any room of the house.

Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Lucy Abbot Throop

There were boxes upon boxes, and bureau drawers and closet shelves already filled up with hand-embroidered and lace-trimmed creations-chemises and corset-covers, night-robes of "handkerchief linen" lawn, lace handkerchiefs and veils, corsets of French coutil, dressing-jackets of pale-coloured silks, and negligees of soft batistes, trimmed with Valenciennes lace, or even with fur.

The Metropolis Upton Sinclair 1923

You do my laces and batistes as no one else ever has.

Hungry Hearts 1920

Such linens and batistes and laces, such delicate, faint grays and lavenders and soft-falling blacks!

T. Tembarom 1913

"No, cottons, batistes, voiles -- that sort of thing."

The Twenty-Fourth of June 1912

At one time, anxious to aid the batiste factories of Flanders, he tried to force Josephine to give up cotton goods and to set the fashion in favor of the batistes; but she made such an outcry that he was obliged to abandon the idea.

The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte Tarbell, Ida 1899