Canton flannel

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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After Canton, China.[1]

Noun

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Canton flannel (countable and uncountable, plural Canton flannels)

  1. A type of soft cotton fabric.
    • 1897, Stephen Crane, The Open Boat, Gateway to the Great Books #3 1963, p. 8:
      The canton flannel gulls flew near and far.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 127:
      Then I cleaned it thoroughly, oiled, wrapped it in a piece of canton flannel and locked it up.
    • 1944, Emily Carr, “Foundation”, in The House of All Sorts[1]:
      No house could sit it down, no house blind what my memory saw—a cow, an old white horse, three little girls in pinafores, their arms full of dolls and Canton-flannel rabbits made and stuffed with bran by an aunt []

References

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  1. ^ Canton flannel”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.