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shantungs

shantungs is the plural of shantung.

Meaning of shantung

Noun

shantung (countable and uncountable, plural shantungs)

  1. A type of Chinese silk, originally undyed.
    • As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 442
  2. A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.

Questions about shantungs

What is shantungs the plural of?
Shantungs is the plural of shantung.

Words near shantungs in the dictionary

  1. Shantou
  2. shants
  3. shantung
  4. Shantung Peninsula
  5. Shantungese
  6. shantungs
  7. shanty
  8. shanty back
  9. shanty backs
  10. shanty boy
  11. shanty boys

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