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shantung

[ UK /ʃˈɑːntʌŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation)

How To Use shantung In A Sentence

  • Fabrics include canvas in different weights, linens, cotton and silk poplins, piquets, silk canvas, shantung, cotton jersey and all the classic ‘suit’ fabrics.
  • And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries. Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
  • Sheree looked great in the black and gold silk shantung pantsuit she wore today.
  • The bodice was in shantung satin and the skirt was in tulle & crinoline with lining.
  • When I visited my favorite hat shop, I looked at a shantung and a cheap Panama hat but decided that my head would look and feel better when crowned by a true Montecristi.
  • The bodice was in shantung satin and the skirt was in tulle & crinoline with lining.
  • Tussah silk, often called shantung, is made from the cocoons of wild tussah silkworms that eat oak and juniper leaves.
  • A somulent shantung shawl of sherbet snow scuttled staidly across the spacious stage onto which the shady stratosphere of heaven harked an assiduous ear.
  • At Mr. Lauren's show, there were silk shantung smoking jackets, shirts with mandarin collars and a healthy dose of dragon embroidery and the color jade. A Burst of Lush, Opulent Glamour
  • I was in a wedding and the bridesmaid's dress was a rose pink silk shantung.
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