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Example sentences for "white cotton"

  • A rather scanty robe of white cotton concealed, in some degree, the bosom, and extended somewhat below the knees.

  • From their waists depended light garments of white cotton, the skirts being trimmed with a thick fringe of red or scarlet.

  • Instead of caps, the better sort wore red and white cotton cloths on their heads, and some had locks of hair hanging from their foreheads.

  • These men wore loose robes of white cotton, having their long hair clotted with blood, and all matted and twisted together.

  • In the drawing-room of the Villa Nardi was shown, and offered for sale, an enormous counterpane, crocheted in white cotton.

  • The Man of Destiny had on a white cotton night-cap, with a peaked top and no tassel.

  • The King was attired in a silken Arab vest of green brocade, partially shrouded under the ample folds of a white cotton robe of Abyssinian manufacture, adorned with sundry broad crimson stripes and borders.

  • The gun was to be treated for latent fingerprints also, so I wore a pair of white cotton gloves to protect any latents that might be present on the gun.

  • There were white cotton fibers on the outside but I was using a pair of white cotton gloves, so these would be of no value.

  • White cotton is the most common thing we have in the way of textiles, and therefore it just doesn't have sufficient individual characteristics to be of value for comparison and identification purposes.

  • This has been Englished by Anglo-Indians into "puggaree" or "pugree" and applied to a scarf of white cotton or silk wound round a hat or helmet as a protection against the sun.

  • They are fastened round the waist with a scarf or string called kamarband (waistband) or izarband, and are usually of white cotton.

  • Over the sadra a white cotton coat is worn, reaching to a little below the waist.

  • It is usually of white cotton, and has the opening or gala in front, at the back, or on either side indifferently.

  • Yarn Doll= (Skein of white cotton yarn) Cut the skein into lengths of 12 inches.

  • The enaguas of the women are plain white; their belts have a foundation of white cotton, but raised designs of black wool are so thickly worked upon them that the white is quite inconspicuous.

  • These braces are knitted with coarse white cotton, taken double; the braces themselves are worked in brioche stitch, the lappets are knitted plain.

  • These letters will be found useful for marking table-linen; they may be worked either in green, red, or white cotton.

  • For mourning wear, this pattern should be embroidered with black filoselle, or the leaves can be worked in white cotton, and the dots in filoselle.

  • The entrance to the sweat house was then covered with a black and white striped blanket upon which were placed two large Coçonino buckskins one upon the other, and upon them a double piece of white cotton.

  • A rug, composed of a blanket and a piece of white cotton, was spread in front of the song priest, and the masks of Hasjelti and Hostjoghon placed thereon.

  • The corners were tied together with white cotton cord, and each corner was ornamented with the under tail feather of the eagle.

  • When the ring was placed over the mouth of the invalid the string was pulled and the ring dropped and rolled out of the lodge, the long tail of white cotton yarn, with eagle plume attached to the end, extending far behind.

  • The priests from all the neighbouring convents, dressed in yellow or white cotton, and holding crosses in their hands, gave variety to the picture.

  • The materials of which it is made are grass-cloths, silks, satins, or white cotton, from China.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    firm purpose; mighty good; white amorphous; white bull; white enamel; white figure; white flag; white flowers; white glass; white hairs; white mantle; white men; white metal; white precipitate; white race; white robe; white samite; white settlers; white shirt; white spot; white spots; white trash; white troops; white waistcoat; white witch; white wool