Word Meanings - DRESSGOODS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

• PRINTABLE
  Worthy to be published. [R.]
• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• Mixtilineal
  Alt. of Mixtilinear
• Mixtilinear
  Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.
• PRINTINGIN
  A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introduced into a photograph. Portions, such as the sky, are covered while printing and the blank space thus reserved is filled in by printing from another negative.
• Mixtion
  Mixture.
• PRINTINGOUT
  A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.
• Appliable
  Applicable; also, compliant.
• Calicoes
  of Calico
• SILKSTOCKING
  Wearing silk stockings (which among men were formerly worn chiefly by the luxurious or aristocratic); hence, elegantly dressed; aristocratic; luxurious; -- chiefly applied to men, often by way of reproach. [They] will find their levees crowded with sil
• Appliance
  The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
• Commonly
  Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue through life.
• Mixture
  The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
• Applicability
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• Gownsman
  Alt. of Gownman
• Printed
  of Print
• Applicable
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.

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