Nankeen porcelain

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• nankeen porcelain — noun Usage: usually capitalized N : chinese porcelain painted in blue on white used especially by dealers of all except the roughest sorts both ancient and modern …   Useful english dictionary

• nankeen — /nan keen /, n. 1. a firm, durable, yellow or buff fabric, formerly made from a natural colored Chinese cotton. 2. a twilled material made from other cotton and dyed in imitation of this fabric. 3. nankeens, garments made of this material. 4. a… …   Universalium

• Nankeen — Nankeen, also called Nankeen cloth, is a kind of pale yellowish cloth, originally made at Nanjing from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton which is then dyed. Also in the plural a piece or variety of… …   Wikipedia

• nankeen — /næŋˈkin/ (say nang keen) noun 1. a firm, durable, yellow or buff fabric, made originally from a natural coloured Chinese cotton but now from other cotton and dyed. 2. (plural) garments made of this material. 3. a yellow or buff colour. 4. a type …  

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