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brown holland
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Definition:A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"Your Cloathing in summer must be as thin and light as possible for the heat is beyond your conception . . .your Cloth suit unlined may do for the Month of May, but after that time you must wear the thinnest Stuffs that can be made without lining; some people . . . wear brown holland Coats with lining –some Crape –You must carry with you a Stock of Linnen Waistcoats made very large and loose, that they may'nt stick to your hide when you perspire."
Stephen Hawtrey, in a letter to his brother.
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they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Mrs. Ukridge, looking younger and more child-like than ever in brown holland, smiled at me over the tea-pot.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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He looked like a harlequin. His clothes had been made of some stuff that was brown holland probably, but it was covered with patches all over, with bright patches, blue, red, and yellow,—patches on the back, patches on front, patches on elbows, on knees; colored binding round his jacket, scarlet edging at the bottom of his trousers;
Joseph Conrad. The Heart of Darkness
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