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- noun Plural form of
osnaburg .
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Examples
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In summer, their clothing is composed of osnaburgs.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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In summer, their clothing is composed of osnaburgs.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Negro-cloth, as it is called, osnaburgs, russet-colored shoes, -- in short, the distinctive apparel formerly dealt out to them, as a uniform allowance, -- are very generally rejected.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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Print cloth and sheetings, drills and osnaburgs are their products, and they make them right.
Mill News. Vol. XXII, no. 16 (Oct. 14, 1920) No Author 1920
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A land-office was formally opened, deeds were issued, and a store was established which supplied the colonists with powder, lead, salt, osnaburgs, blankets, and other chief necessities of pioneer existence.
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920
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The slaves were well fed and well clothed in osnaburgs and linseys cut and made in the sewing room of the "big house."
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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Clothes, too, wore out, as is their nature, and the kind we were used to wearing were not of the lasting variety like osnaburgs and linseys.
Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912
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Every October cloth was issued at the rate of seven yards of osnaburgs, three of checks, and three of baize for each adult and proportionately for children.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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Mr. L has sent to buy some bags which (considering what we have given for osnaburgs 1,25 a yd) are not unreasonable -- you can send them to and fro -- tell Anne I have begged Wm to engage some whiskey from Goodwin for her -- he sent us some excellent, and if he did not change his price it is only 17 a gallon.
Elliott and Gonzales Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865. Elliott 1865
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Mr. L has sent to buy some bags which (considering what we have given for osnaburgs 1,25 a yd) are not unreasonable -- you can send them to and fro -- tell Anne I have begged Wm to engage some whiskey from Goodwin for her -- he sent us some excellent, and if he did not change his price it is only 17 a gallon.
Elliott and Gonzales Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865. Elliott 1865
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