tarlatan

American  

[tahr-luh-tn, -tuhn] / ˈtɑr lə tn, -tən /

noun

1. a thin, plain-weave, open-mesh cotton fabric finished with stiffening agents and sometimes glazed.

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tarlatan British  

/ ˈtɑːlətən /

noun

1. an open-weave cotton fabric, used for stiffening garments

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Etymology

Origin of tarlatan

First recorded in 1720–30; from French tarlatane, dissimilated variant of tarnatane kind of cloth originally imported from India; further origin unknown

Example Sentences

It is at this time in the life of the houses and their dwellers that Mary and I collect them and bring them home and put them into little tarlatan bags.

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There will often come out of one of the galls that Mary and I have in a tarlatan bag, not one kind of insect, but several kinds, and only one of these kinds is the regular proper house-owner.

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It did not wear the traditional gray tarlatan armor of Hamlet's father, the only ghost with whom I am well acquainted; this spectre was clad in substantial deer-skin garments, and carried a gun and loaded game-bag.

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I rather liked myself in my home-made white tarlatan, feeling very much dressed in my first low neck.

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My white tarlatan and my Second Street silk had grown shabby before the winter was half over.

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