Citations:mozambique

English citations of mozambique

Noun

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• 1831, “Newest Parisian Fashions”, in The World of Fashion, and Continental Feuilletons, volume 8, number 91, London, page 240:

  High Dresses composed of Cashmere wool, under the names of Indonstanes and Thibitians, begin to be worn in the promenades. They are painted and figured in various patterns; that called Mozambique is extremely fashionable, and is remarkable for its elegant singularity. These dresses are made either with plain corsages, or with folds at the upper part, which form a demi cœur. The sleeves are either à l' Amadis, or of the short gigot shape. Boa tippets, Cashmere scarfs, and velvet pelerines, are all in favour with these dresses: the pelerines are most numerous.

• 1864, Charles J. Stillé, Memorial of the Great Central Fair for the U. S. Sanitary Commission, Held at Philadelphia, June 1864, Philadelphia: United States Sanitary Commission, page 62:

  On counter No. 3, east side, are organdy lawns, mozambiques, cotton and woollen, and colored Coburg, and alpaca of different colors.

• 1864 August, “Fashions: Chitchat Upon New York and Philadelphia Fashions for August”, in Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Philadelphia, page 186:

  For half mourning at this season of the year, Mme. Demorest is making black grenadine richly trimmed with flutings and silk, or ribbon quilled and laid on in various designs, while an endless variety of chene grenadines, lustrines, crapes, and Mozambiques, in black, gray, and lavender, give ample scope for a display of taste in all the gradations of mourning dress.

• 1867, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Gypsy's Year at the Golden Crescent, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., published 1897, page 30:

  Gypsy found several girls in the coach before her. One was the young lady with the heather in her bonnet and the Mozambique dress.

• [1875, Edward H. Knight, “Mozambique”, in Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: […], volume 2, New York: J. B. Ford & Co., page 1493:

  An open dress-goods having a chain in which the cotton threads are associated in pairs, and the woolen filling is soft and fleecy. It is dyed in the wool, self-colored, or striped in the warp.]

• 1880, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1879, Washington [D.C.]: Government Printing Office, page 596:

  There are most beautiful examples of poplins, mozambiques, and other dress goods in the museum of this department, manufactured in Bradford, England, that for several years attracted attention and were popular; […]

• 1900, George S. Cole, “MOZAMBIQUE”, in Cole's Encyclopedia of Dry Goods: A Reference Book for the Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods Trade of the United States […], Chicago, New York, St. Louis: Root Newspaper Association, page 366:

  A thin gauzy dress fabric generally constructed with a cotton warp and a mohair filling. It is distinguished from mohair by its thinner and more filmy texture. High-grade mozambiques are often woven in fancy plaids and checks and complicated openwork patterns, and when of this style are intended to be made up over a foundation fabric.

• 1913, Amelia E. Barr, All the Days of My Life: an Autobiography; The Red Leaves of a Human Heart, New York & London: D. Appleton & Co., page 103:

  I went to Bradford for a couple of weeks, had my wedding frock made there, and brought home with me alpacas and mozambiques, baréges and chantilly muslins, and lots of other pretty things.

• 1928, Sarah S. Pratt, The Old Crop in Indiana‎^[1], Indianapolis: Pratt Poster, page 53:

  Mozambique was a summer fabric something like voile but stiffer.