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tarlatan: tags: [fashion]

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A thin muslin with an open weave, once used for ballgowns etc.

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a starched, open-weave fabric, much like cheese cloth. It is used to wipe the ink off a plate during the intaglio inking process. The open weave allows for the tarlatan to pick up a large quantity of ink. The stiffness imparted by the starch helps prevent the fabric from taking the ink out of the incised lines.

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also spelled tarletane, tarlaton

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Maybelle Merriwether went toward the next booth on the arm of the Zouave, in an apple-green tarlatan so wide that it reduced her waist to nothingness.

Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind (1936)

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“I shan’t dance with you for a whole evening, if you go to asking me any more questions.”

“O, you couldn’t be so cruel, now! I was just dying to know whether you would appear in your pink tarletane,” said Adolph.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)