lutestrings

What a procession! her red damask, — her orange tawney, — her white and yellow lutestrings, — her brown taffata, — her bone - laced caps, her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats. —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

What a procession! her red damask, — her orange tawney, — her white and yellow lutestrings, — her brown taffata, — her bone-laced caps, her bed-gowns, and comfortable under-petticoats. —

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

The secretary was fretting at his lutestrings, with his head downcast.

Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

_ (He plucks his lutestrings) _ When first I saw ...

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Of course, they were not in their flowered silks, their lutestrings, their mantuas.

Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

They ransacked the old cedar chests of their great-grandparents, and exhumed the rich brocades, cloths of gold and silvers, lutestrings, lamas, fardingdales, hair-cushions, and all the gorgeous paraphernalia and regalia of the ante-revolutionary queens of fashion.

Cruel As The Grave Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

There was an agreeable inter-mixture of old and faded brocades, rustling padusoys, and shining lutestrings.

Margaret 1851

Muslins are much in taste; no silks but lutestrings worn; but send not to London for any article you want; you may purchase any thing you can name much lower in Boston.

Letters of Mrs. Adams 1840

The crew belonging to the cutter, for she was a vessel in the service of his Majesty, King William the Third, at this time employed in protecting his Majesty's revenue against the importation of alamodes and lutestrings, were all down below at their breakfasts, with the exception of the steersman and lieutenant-commandant, who now walked the quarter-deck, if so small an extent of plank could be dignified with such a name.

Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Frederick Marryat 1820

Dutch navy lay dismantled in port, a few small vessels only being in commission to intercept the smuggling from France that was carrying on, much to the detriment of English manufacture, of certain articles then denominated alamodes and lutestrings.

Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend Frederick Marryat 1820