Anna Karenina vocabulary

34 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)

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34 [fashion] words
gusset
forage cap
jerkin
serge
top boots
poplin
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batiste

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Definition:
one of the softest fabrics once often used for high quality garments. Similar but more lightweight than cambric.

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image: By Unknown - Harper's Bazaar - April 23, 1898, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16263720
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A short stout man of about thirty, in white breeches and high boots and a batiste shirt that he had evidently only just put on,

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 05 (Book Five)
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Anna had put on a very simple batiste gown.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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