nankeen

English

Noun

nankeen (countable and uncountable, plural nankeens)

1. A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
   • He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat. — Leo Tolstoy, What Men Live By and Other Tales, translated by L. and A. Maude
   • She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Christmas Tree and the Wedding

Derived terms

• nankeen heron
• nankeen kestrel
• nankeen night heron