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  • noun Plural form of sateen.

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Examples

  • I've had good luck searching for cotton poplins and sateens -- they have a little more okay, a lot more heft than quilting cottons.

    And How - A Dress A Day 2009

  • Most Harmony Art sateens are 110″ wide…. so if you do the math in terms of fabric yield the cost for Harmony Art fabric is actually less expensive.

    Introducing Cloud 9 Fabrics 2009

  • I have been eying it and some other sateens for a while, but I can't decide.

    Dress Mashup - A Dress A Day 2008

  • In the shallow dark window-space heaps of sleazy sateens, badly woven galateas, canvas shoes designed for women with bulging ankles, steel and red glass buttons upon cards with broken edges, a cottony blanket, a granite-ware frying-pan reposing on a sun-faded crepe blouse.

    Main Street 2004

  • The textile products manufactured are carpet yarns, curtain goods, moleskins, Palm Beach cloth, and sateens.

    Drummond's Pictorial Atlas of North Carolina. Albert Y. Drummond 1924

  • In the shallow dark window-space heaps of sleazy sateens, badly woven galateas, canvas shoes designed for women with bulging ankles, steel and red glass buttons upon cards with broken edges, a cottony blanket, a granite-ware frying-pan reposing on a sun-faded crêpe blouse.

    Main Street 1920

  • In the shallow dark window-space heaps of sleazy sateens, badly woven galateas, canvas shoes designed for women with bulging ankles, steel and red glass buttons upon cards with broken edges, a cottony blanket, a granite-ware frying-pan reposing on a sun-faded crepe blouse.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • The room was small, and so well filled with furniture that there seemed little space for the long limbs of Alfred Irons, who, however, had contrived to make himself comfortable by the aid of various cushions covered with bright-colored sateens.

    The Philistines Arlo Bates 1884

  • The bales and boxes contained chiefly spices, silks and sateens, shawls, piece-goods, and coffee.

    By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson 1867

  • Here are brilliant cotton velvets and sateens and tinselled muslins and gay ribbons that take the eye of his women folk; here are trays of Brummagem knickknacks, brass watches, and rings set with coloured glass, gorgeous celluloid hair combs, mirrors with elaborate, gilded frames, and brass lamps with "hand-painted" shades and dangling lustres; here are German accordions and mouth-organs and all sorts of pocket-knives and alarm-clocks -- the greatest collection of glittering and noisy trash that can be imagined, bought at so much a dozen and retailed, usually, at about the same price for one.

    Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

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