His nankeen small clothes were tied with 16 strings at each knee (1774).
In the cotton belt a solution was found at last in nankeen cotton.
On the contrary, he leaned back in the chair on which he was seated, and nursed his leg with the nankeen trouser meditatively.
The cotton from which nankeen is made is of a particular kind naturally of a yellowish color.
He wore a sky-blue coat, and trousers of nankeen; his white stockings were rolled down to his shoes.
In his room he took off his formal coat and nankeen waistcoat and hung them on a pegged board.
We find that boys wore nankeen suits the entire year and that jackets and trousers for the boys were made of calico and chintz.
Her cargo consisted of silks, nankeens, and teas, and afforded her owner a profit of half a million of dollars.
