white-duck

For the summer, you can have a loose, white-duck cover made to create that English stately-home look.

The Best in Squooshy Sofas Rita Konig 2012

In the light shade Tommy caught her up in his white-duck arms and pulled her around to him, looking at her eyes.

Tender is the Night 2003

She took the white-duck photograph to lunch and propped it against the pitcher of iced milk.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

He was a little bit shy at first at sitting down in his worn though spotless white-duck slacks opposite the beautiful girl in black and silver, with straps of amethysts across her satiny shoulders.

Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley

A black-faced genii of the bowl and weal, in a very dubiously white-duck coat thrust on hurriedly over clothing reminiscent of the day's window washing and furnace cinders, held attitude in among the small tables that littered the room.

Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928

It wore a pair of white-duck trousers, much soiled, a coat that bore the words

Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

She took great pride in Enrico's white-duck suits and explained to me that she never let him wear one suit more than two days without its being washed and starched; and she always pipeclayed his shoes and carefully inspected him each morning before sending him forth to his day's work.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

His teeth would be chattering like a Morse sounder, and inside his white-duck pants his knees would be knocking together with a low, muffled sound.

Europe Revised 1910

The tattered relics of his white-duck suit were plastered with yellow palm-oil and various kinds of grease.

Essays in Rebellion Henry W. Nevinson 1900

She took great pride in Enrico's white-duck suits and explained to me that she never let him wear one suit more than two days without its being washed and starched; and she always pipeclayed his shoes and carefully inspected him each morning before sending him forth to his day's work.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters Elbert Hubbard 1885