poplin

How to use poplin in a sentence

• Miriam has two poplins and a black silk, and mother a wine-colored merino, only.

  A Confederate Girl's Diary | Sarah Margan Dawson

• About 1783, Irish poplins or lustres were made by that firm.

  A Comprehensive History of Norwich | A. D. Bayne

• I saw some elegant gray poplins, of the finest luster, at Stewarts yesterday.

  Family Pride | Mary J. Holmes

• The Greers, for instance, have made over their green poplins twice a year now for five years, and have done it well.

  For the Major | Constance Fenimore Woolson

• Plain poplins are much worn; also royal Pekin or black damask, trimmed with two broad flounces of Cambray lace.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 | Various