book-muslin

I always feel that to live up to them would include wearing book-muslin with gigot sleeves.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

I always feel that to live up to them would include wearing book-muslin with gigot sleeves.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

I always feel that to live up to them would include wearing book-muslin with gigot sleeves.

The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987

At the same end of the room were seated the soberly clad members of the sect -- the men on one side of the apartment, with their broad-brimmed hats removed; on the other side the sisters, with their extremely plain book-muslin caps and otherwise sober attire.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

Ordinary book-muslin bandages are as good as anything for this purpose, as they can be reinforced by a stronger form outside them.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

When the atmosphere is such as to allow of rapid drying, thin moistened book-muslin bandages would be preferable to the plain open-wove ones.

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

She was dressed in a simple dove-colored gown, with book-muslin cap and handkerchief, so scrupulously arranged that one might have associated with her for six months without ever discovering a spot on the former or an uneven fold in the latter.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 Various

I remember a dance given by handsome Mrs. Forrest, when I wore a white "book-muslin," with my hair glued to my head with bandoline, then plaited in sixteen-strand braids coiled in a basket low upon the neck, in which were inserted

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

She put on the best thin dress she had -- a gray book-muslin; an '

Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

On the back of each bit of these materials, she pasted little book-muslin tickets that had the name and date printed on it, of the lady and the occasion she wore the gown.

Polly's Business Venture Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900