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  • From K-Mart, no less, I got tamboured white Indian cotton, and I wish I'd gotten more of it, too.

    Fabric is Everywhere - A Dress A Day 2006

  • Also say that I have altered my mind about the satin, which I wish to be tamboured with crochet-work; also, that tambour is to be used with monograms on the various garments.

    Poor Folk 2003

  • What reason was it, O rose of seventeen, adorning thyself with cloudy films of lace and sparks of jewelry before the mirror that reflects youth and beauty, that made Miss Lucinda array herself in a brand-new dress of yellow muslin-de-laine strewed with round green spots, and displace her customary hand-kerchief for a huge tamboured collar, on this eventful occasion?

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

  • The windows have very handsome gilt cornices, with tamboured muslin curtains, and others of a blue and gold coloured damask; there are two large sofas, and four small chairs of dark walnut wood, carved and covered with the same material as the curtains, and a smaller chair with a tapestry seat -- also a large rocking-chair covered with Utrecht velvet.

    First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Isabella Strange Trotter 1847

  • She usually wore a dress of dark gray stuff, with immense pockets, a black silk neckerchief folded over her shoulders, a white tamboured muslin cap, with a black ribbon passed two or three times round the crown.

    Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

  • It is probable she had had several new garments since she related to Helen the history of the worm-eaten traveler, but they were all of the same gray color, relieved by the black silk neckerchief and white tamboured muslin cap -- and under the cap there was the same opaque fold of white paper, carefully placed on the top of the head.

    Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Caroline Lee Hentz 1828

  • Catherine knew all this very well; her great aunt had read her a lecture on the subject only the Christmas before; and yet she lay awake ten minutes on Wednesday night debating between her spotted and her tamboured muslin, and nothing but the shortness of the time prevented her buying a new one for the evening.

    Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1818

  • Catherine knew all this very well; her great aunt had read her a lecture on the subject only the Christmas before; and yet she lay awake ten minutes on Wednesday night debating between her spotted and her tamboured muslin, and nothing but the shortness of the time prevented her buying a new one for the evening.

    Northanger Abbey 1818

  • Catherine knew all this very well; her great aunt had read her a lecture on the subject only the Christmas before; and yet she lay awake ten minutes on Wednesday night debating between her spotted and her tamboured muslin, and nothing but the shortness of the time prevented her buying a new one for the evening.

    Northanger Abbey 1803

  • Catherine knew all this very well; her great aunt had read her a lecture on the subject only the Christmas before; and yet she lay awake ten minutes on Wednesday night debating between her spotted and her tamboured muslin, and nothing but the shortness of the time prevented her buying a new one for the evening.

    Northanger Abbey 1798

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