I think you may wear your blue poplinand the white shoes if it's a nice day.
Blue and brown cashmeres for school and a green silk poplin for Sunday best--aren't these little bows down the front cunning?
But you must be a little lady and not romp--the poplin won't wash, you know.
The grey poplinis noble, also the flour, and the writing on the brown paper.
He still possessed the wardrobe of the first wife, thoughtfully preserved by his sister, even to the wonderful grey watered-poplin which had been her wedding-dress.
Miss Haight, lifting the skinny arm, from which the blue poplin sleeve hung in an awkward fashion.
The little figure in the staring poplin gown hung quite limp, as Peggy lifted it.
It was not, of course, the brown poplin alone she hated!
Over her, in a hot wave of mortification, swept the realization of what a ridiculous figure she would present, walking up before everybody in her brown poplin that she knew now was different from any other dress she had seen at school.
But, alone in her own room, the pent-up passion that had been searing poor Jerry's soul burst; with furious fingers she tore off the brown poplin dress and threw it into a corner.
Rob, foreseeing this question, had been engaged in a hasty mental estimate of the original cost of the poplin and the silk.
A certain faded poplin gown, in many pieces, and an old silk with brocaded stripes had long haunted Mrs. Grey as a hopeful source of new chair-covers.
All the previous afternoon she had spent dipping the poplin into a big iron pot bubbling over the fire and bringing it up on the end of her "witch stick," as the girls called it, dripping and dark, to be hung out to dry.
Here appeared Mrs. Grey's generalship, for though the poplin had turned out a fine, uniform green, the pieces were much too narrow for upholstery.
There was a vision of geranium-coloured poplin flapping against him, and when he looked round, behold, Miss Betsey had him in possession.
I don't see why steel button armour should not go quite as well with geranium poplin as yellow satin.
I do not remember ever seeing geranium poplin at a party," said Muriel, looking to Betsey; but her eyes fell before the glance of displeased superiority she met there.
Perhaps it was the royalty of the poplin that enwrapped her; but Lucy Ann looked very capable of holding her own.
But no moment of that evening was half so sweet to her as the one when little John, the youngest child of all, crept up to her and pulled at her poplin skirt, until she bent down to hear.
He was looking at a fine Irish poplin dress-piece when Sylvia answered to his call.
When the evening for the small party came, she found that the poplin wouldn't do at all, for the other girls were putting on thin dresses and making themselves very fine indeed.
For an instant she looked up at him, a very devil of dainty malice in her expression, in the shrug of her shoulders too, beneath their fine laces and the affected sobriety of that same dull-blue, poplin gown.
Poplin or popeline is a name given to a class of goods distinguished by a rib or cord effect running width way of the piece.
Cotton poplin is usually made with a plain weave, the rep effect being obtained either by using a fine warp as compared with the filling, or a large number of ends as compared with picks per inch on both.
Irish poplin is a light-weight variety of poplin, sometimes called single poplin, and is celebrated for its uniformly fine and excellent wearing qualities.
Poplin manufacture was introduced into Ireland in 1693 by a colony of fugitive French Huguenots.
A cloth having Cashmere twill on one side or face and poplincord on the reverse.
In the afternoon the parlor maid or waitress changes to a black serge dress in winter, or a black poplin in summer, with white linen cuffs and collars and a small white apron.
In warmer weather she wears linen or poplin with the apron and collar and cuffs.
They were aching there, behind the varnished stove, the festooned engravings, beneath her own neat little poplin bosom; and if he could only touch the tender spot, she would make a movement that would betray her.
At last, however, she rustled in, smoothing down a stiff poplin dress, with a little frightened flush in a gracefully-rounded cheek.
She went to sleep at last and dreamed of standing up to be married in a Russell-cord poplin (whatever that wonderful fabric might be) which had already done duty for fifteen years, and was "as good as new.
I've heard about that wonderful poplinever since I can remember," she said.
I bought you goods for a navy-blue poplin to-day, Lilly.
Lilly's poplin frock was completed for the Friday auditorium exercises.
The walls were hung with the finest Irish poplin and decorated by the most noted artists of the time.
The banners of the twenty-four knights of St. Patrick are suspended from either side, and the crimson draperies and upholstering of Irish poplin give the apartment an attractive color.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poplin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corduroy; cotton; fabric; nylon
