nankeen (redirected from nankeens)

nan·keen  (nn-kn) also nan·kin (-kn, -kn)

n.

1.

a. A sturdy yellow or buff cotton cloth.

b. nankeens Trousers made of this cloth.

2. Nankeen A Chinese porcelain with a blue-and-white pattern.

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[After Nanjing.]

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nankeen [næŋˈkiːn], nankin [ˈnænkɪn]

n

1. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) a hard-wearing buff-coloured cotton fabric

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours)

a.  a pale greyish-yellow colour

b.  (as adjective) a nankeen carpet

[named after Nanking, China, where it originated]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

nankeen - a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

Translations

nankeen

n, no pl (= cloth) → Nanking(-stoff) m