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nankeen

nan·keen

uncommon

noun

1.

a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color

Origin

Eye spelling of Nanking, itself a romanization of Chinese 南京 (Nánjīng, literally “Southern capital”).

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