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gingerline

gingerline noun: a type of mohair with an orangish brown color, or fabric made from this mohair.

Noun

gingerline (countable and uncountable, plural gingerlines)

  1. A type of mohair with an orangish brown color, or fabric made from this mohair.
    • Another modification of the Invention which may be applied in certain cases, that is to say, when it is required to imitate the skins of animals having wavy or frizzled hair, such as those known under the name of otter's or astracan fur, is as follows; but in this case I would observe, it is...1857, English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1857, 717 - 788, page 12
    • To Mary Gey, she gives her 'best hatt,' her 'ould petecoat and one doulis smock and a blew apron and an under coat of gingerline.'1882, Charles Elihu Slocum, A Short History of the Slocums, Slocumbs and Slocombs of America

Adjective

gingerline (comparative more gingerline, superlative most gingerline)

  1. The color of gingerline: orangish brown.
    • Four of them can now be dyed without increase, French green, gingerline, deer colour, orange colour.1910, James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford, Bibliotheca Lindesiana - Volume 5, page 195
    • Silk grogans, satins, velvet fine, The rosy-colour'd carnadine, Your nutmeg hue, or gingerline, Cloth-of-tissue or tabine, That like beaten gold will shine In your amorous ladies' eyne, Whilst you their softer silks do twine?1946, John Gloag, Industrial Art Explained

Examples of gingerline in a sentence

  • Among the stuffs supplied to the Indians we find gingerline.1894, Alice Morse Earle, Costume of Colonial Times, page 114:
  • The brown samples (Nos. 3 and 4) are "gingerlines" of an inferior quality ; they are lacking in lustre and have too much the appearance of wool.1928, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute - Volume 26, page 142:
  • Colors that reflected England's new colonies and recent explorations; brick, greediline, gingerline, muske, pepper, grape, fawne, sage, corke, tobacco, Virginia-ffrog.1975, Elizabeth Taylor Lehman, Inconsistencies in men's hosen, page 130:

Forms of gingerline

Noun
pluralgingerlines
Adjective
comparativemore gingerline
superlativemost gingerline

Origin of gingerline

From a district in Asia Minor where the fibre is produced.

Questions about gingerline

What does gingerline mean?
Gingerline means a type of mohair with an orangish brown color, or fabric made from this mohair.
How do you use gingerline in a sentence?
Among the stuffs supplied to the Indians we find gingerline.
What part of speech is gingerline?
Gingerline can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of gingerline?
The plural of gingerline is gingerlines.

Words near gingerline in the dictionary

  1. gingeritas
  2. gingerless
  3. gingerlier
  4. gingerliest
  5. gingerlike
  6. gingerline
  7. gingerlines
  8. gingerliness
  9. gingerly
  10. gingermint
  11. gingerness

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