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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[So called from its being originally manufactured at

Nankin

(Nanjing), in China.]

[Written also

nankin

A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (

Gossypium religiosum

) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.

pl.

Trousers made of nankeen.

Ld. Lytton.

Nankeen bird

(Zool.)

the Australian night heron (

Nycticorax Caledonicus

); – called also

quaker

Noun.

[Nankin a Chinese word.] A species of cotton cloth of a firm texture, from China, now imitated by the manufacturers in Great Britain.