Well was it that the shabby green delaine was a woolen dress, that the stout shoes did not encumber the nimble feet, that the child's faculties were so alert.
A chintz is the best skirt to wear, and in winter a dark chintz skirt put on over a delaine dress, will protect it from baskets, and the unavoidable soils contracted in a market, while it looks perfectly well, and can be washed if required.
A plain merino or dark silk, with a cloth cloak, will look much better than the most expensive velvet cloak over a cheap delaine dress.
Charlotte would scarcely have said he had noticed, but he knew well she had on a new gown of delainein a mottled purple pattern, her worked-muslin collar, and her mother's gold beads which she had given her.
Charlotte unobtrusively moved her chair a little nearer her lover's; her purple delaine skirt swept his knee; both of them blushed and trembled with Cephas's black eyes upon them.
So in all the hurry no one seemed to think much about Marcia, and she was not satisfied with her brown delaineafternoon dress.
Rose Brentwood was looking her very prettiest in a rose-sprigged delaine and her wavy dark hair in a beaded net tied round with a rose-colored lute-string ribbon.
Ann Lizy looked like a wilted meadow reed, the blue streamers on her hat drooped dejectedly, her best shoes were all dusty, and the three-cornered rent was the feature of her best muslin delaine dress that one saw first.
She wore a low-necked, and short-sleeved, browndelaine dress.
Ann Lizy had on her best muslindelaine dress, her best embroidered pantalets, her black silk apron, and her flat straw hat with long blue ribbon streamers.
She forgot to swing her muslin delaine skirts gracefully, and flounced along hitting the dusty meadowsweet bushes.
Delaine merinos have smoother bodies than the American, and fewer folds and wrinkles.
Our ring at the bell produced a man-servant, who stated that Mrs. Delainewas away from home, and he did not know when she would return.
I was both astonished and delighted at this, as this Mrs. Delaine was a person upon whom my mother had by mutual friends been asked to call.
She had exchanged her brown delaine for a plain calico dress, with a bit of white edging about the neck.
She bought herself three new dresses; a neat gingham for morning wear, a delaine for afternoons, and something nicer for best.
Smoothing it carefully down in front, Martha was disappointed to see that it did not reach nearly so far over the brown delaine dress as she had expected.
And she glanced down along her unbuttoned jacket, over the faded delaine dress, to her shoes tied with strings held together by countless knots.
Delaine Wool= is a variety of fine, long combing wool.
She was picking her way delicately through the green lane, between the evening primroses, the grey-green delaine held just right.
The bride, who was a beautiful girl, wore a delaine dress of light and dark blue with a large white lace fichu.
They also very much admired my mother's delaine dress which was of triangles in blue, red, black and white.
The next moment the brown delainedress was rubbing elbows with a richly bound book and a Duchesse lace collar in the middle bureau drawer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delaine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
