cachemire

She wears always the same dress, -- a kind of gray pearl-coloured silk, with a 'cachemire' shawl.

The Parisians — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

She wears always the same dress, -- a kind of gray pearl-coloured silk, with a 'cachemire' shawl.

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

I feel quite sure that without this "cachemire" she would not have kept her footing in the pensionnat for two days: by virtue of it, and it only, she maintained the same a month.

Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

I feel quite sure that without this “cachemire” she would not have kept her footing in the pensionnat for two days: by virtue of it, and it only, she maintained the same a month.

Villette 2003

To the practised eye, a Hijazi in Tarbush and Caftan is ridiculous as a Basque or a Catalonian girl in a cachemire and a little chip.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Still the wrecks were there -- the red cap with the long blue silk tassel; the vest of black cloth embroidered with gold; the pantaloons of deep red; the large, full gaiters of the same color, embroidered with gold like the vest; the yellow slippers; the cachemire around his waist, and the small, crooked cangiar passed through his girdle.

Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

NO one, I imagine, ever yet left an hotel in a central and bustling part of Paris, without feeling the faculty of observation strained to the utmost, and experiencing a whirl and jumble of recollections as little in unison with each other as the well known signs of that whimsical city, the _Boeuf à-la-mode_, (with his cachemire shawl and his ostrich feathers) and the _Mort d'Henri Quartre_.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

It is made very simple or very richly ornamented: for instance, those of the most simple description are made either of black velvet, embroidered with braid, and fastened with black jet buttons, or of cachemire; and a pretty style, of straw color, embroidered in the same colored silk, and closed with fancy silk bell buttons, whilst a few may be seen in white, quilted and embroidered with oak leaves and rose-buds.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Every Turk, and indeed every inhabitant of Stamboul, carries about his person a square bag, either of cachemire ornamented with embroidery, or of common silk, in which he keeps a supply of tobacco; and as the coffee-house supplies him with a pipe-stick and pipe gratis, he pays only for the cup of coffee which accompanies it.

Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 John Auldjo

Her best clothes evidently, cachemire and silk, with two flowers and a feather in her hat, her charming baby prettiness as much crushed and eclipsed as bad taste and a country town dressmaker could accomplish.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Various