Robert Blossom, if I go down to Mr. Dryburg's shop and buy two yards of percale at sixteen cents a yard, how much must I pay?
Bobby was hopelessly bewildered now, and he had forgotten the cost of both percale and braid.
Fold the percale through the center, with the woof, and baste the edges together.
Fold the percale with the warp into three equal pieces.
Materials: Blue Percale 9" woof by 4" warp; scraps of calico for practice pieces; white thread No.
A like effect was produced by the showy percale handkerchief adorning her face by the side of that cut-water nose, hooked and masculine; for a moment I was led to believe (or I was very glad to) that it was a man in disguise.
Yes, and Kali has heard that they had a great deal of percale on their heads.
The god-parents gave to each child sixteen yards of white percaleand a string of blue beads.
The enraptured women even prostrated themselves before Mea, who, attired in rosy percale and a few strings of blue beads, as a humble servant of the Mzimu, appeared to them as a being far superior to the common negresses.
Stas protected Nell as best he could from the sun and did not permit her to lean for even a moment out of the palanquin, whose little roof he covered with a piece of white percale in order to make it double.
Give me a white percaledress and a gauze mantle with it.
She rose and went into the house and to her room, and changed the hated striped percale for her riding-clothes.
Percale is chiefly used for dress fabrics, and when used for this purpose is generally printed on one side with geometrical figures, generally black, although other colors may be seen.
Percale is a closely woven fabric made with a good quality of cotton yarn.
My beautiful robe of white percale which I always wear on holidays, my dear nurse.
The nurse now packed in a little trunk the percale robe and white skirt, a pair of cotton stockings and black shoes and then a little bouquet of flowers for Rosette to wear in her hair.
The case folded] Measure the bedstead and cut two pieces of percale or zephyr exactly the same size.
Poof, those citizens do not know percale from a Parisian toilette.
But an intensely scarlet percale caught her barbarian eye, and she took enough of it for a skirt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "percale" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
