Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A striped or figured silk fabric.
- noun A large white domestic duck of a Chinese breed, widely raised in the United States for food.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been obliged to hoist this bergere up to the first story through the window, as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned among the possibilities in the way of furniture.
Les Miserables 2008
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February 24, 2008 at 6:52 am mum, i feelz a pekin on my hed.
Bird watchin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The fourth and final savory course was Cherry glazed white pekin duck with flag pond pickled ramps and smoked hon shimiji.
Augieland: 2006
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The fourth and final savory course was Cherry glazed white pekin duck with flag pond pickled ramps and smoked hon shimiji.
Sumile's cherry blossom menu: 701 issagoodbrillian stars 2006
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He was, perhaps, discontented at being put in communication with a pekin, and thought that Lord Steyne should have sent him a Colonel at the very least.
Vanity Fair 2006
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If pekin and bayadère stripes are combined, we obtain checked fabrics, and of these an endless variety and pleasing effects can be produced with the aid of suitable color combinations.
Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics Arnold Wolfensberger
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'Ant now,' he said, 'I haf got to pekin my day's work.'
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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One of the queerest friendships that ever came under my observation was that which existed between a bantam cock and a pekin drake.
The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881
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"This poy -- he was a poy den -- wars so gracy to pekin reading Heine that he gommence with the tictionary bevore he knows any Grammar, and ve bick it out vort by vort togeder."
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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"This poy -- he was a poy den -- wars so gracy to pekin reading Heine that he gommence with the tictionary bevore he knows any Grammar, and ve bick it out vort by vort togeder."
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878
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