nainsook

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14:54 Jan 30, 2009

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English term or phrase: nainsook

Definition from weavers.org.uk:
A lightweight, plain-weave, cotton cloth with a soft finish, although French nainsook has a crisp finish. Sometimes this fabric is made with a closely woven satin or twill stripe forming a corded effect at intervals across the fabric. Often used in the manufacture of lingerie and dresses. The word nainsook comes from the Hindi words nain, meaning eye, and sukh, meaning delight. This fabric dates back to seventeenth century India when it was sometimes called nansook, nyansook or nainsook and was thought to give 'pleasure to the eye'.

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Nainsook and lawn were made in extra fine, fine and regular cottons with the extra fine nainsook having a silk finish. fabrics.net
This simple mode is illustrated in linen with Swiss insertion, edge lace and ribbon-run beading and also in nainsook with Valenciennes lace, insertion, ribbon and beading. vintagevictorian.com
The softest and finest fabrics are used for these dresses such as French and Persian lawn, batiste, handkerchief linen and nainsook. smockingstore.com

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nanszu

Krisztina Lelik

finom, könnyű ágyneművászon, indiai muszlin

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4 days confidence:

nanszu

Definition from Lévai László: Francia-magyar divatsz�:
Vagy nanszuk.
Országh-szótárban is megtalálható.

A franciából került a nansouk> nanszu, nanszuk a magyar nyelvbe.
nansouk nanszuk, indiai pamutvászon

Example sentence(s):

Gizi mama ugyanis a kezembe nyomott két darab könyvet. A címük ez: Textiljáték készítése I-II. Kevéné Mártonffy Anikó zseniális műve mindkettő, az egyik 1951-ben a másik 55-ben került kiadásra. Tudjuk-e még például, milyen anyag a karakül, a szolinó, a nanszu, lehet-e még bárhol is viaszosvásznat kapni és kell-e még a Földön bárkinek is magyarázni, milyen tulajdonságokkal bír a "plasztic". - zsebiújság
muszlin női ruha, függöny muszlinbársony alkalmi női ruha nanszu ágynemű, fehérnemű noppos tweed lásd tweed - Kisokos lexikon

Krisztina Lelik
Greece
Local time: 17:51
Native speaker of:

Hungarian
PRO pts in category: 8

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Angela Greenfield Best Friend не обязательно будет написано на самом кулоне

Mikhail Korolev Спасибо, Анжела.

Спасибо.

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13 days confidence:

finom, könnyű ágyneművászon, indiai muszlin

Definition from own experience or research:
Ez egy finom muszlin anyag, ágyneműk és bébiholmi készítésére is használják.

Example sentence(s):

A nainsook hindu eredetű, eredetileg nain sukh - nain=szem, sukh=öröm, gyönyör, élvezet), nagyjából annyit tesz, hogy szemnek öröme, gyönyörűséges a szemnek. - Your Dictionary

twelverainbow
United Kingdom
Local time: 15:51
Native speaker of:

Hungarian,

Slovak
PRO pts in category: 4

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