Usage examples for nankeen:

• An enormous sunbonnet of yellow nankeen completely concealed her head and face, but allowed two knotted and twisted brown tails of hair to escape under its frilled cape behind. "From Sand Hill to Pine" – Bret Harte

• A bright, laughing face, prettily framed round by a black veil passed over the head and tied under the chin- a traveling- dress of a nankeen color, studded with blue buttons and trimmed with white braid- a light brown cloak over it- little neatly- gloved hands, which seized in an instant on one of mine and on one of Owen's- two dark blue eyes, which seemed to look us both through and through in a moment- a clear, full, merrily confident voice- a look and manner gayly and gracefully self- possessed- such were the characteristics of our fair guest which first struck me at the moment when she left the postchaise and possessed herself of my hand. "The Queen of Hearts" – Wilkie Collins Last Updated: January 3, 2009

• Cotton was grown there which was the color of nankeen it was spun, woven, and used in its natural color, without being dyed. "A Portrait of Old George Town" – Grace Dunlop Ecker

• He was dressed in a faultlessly fitting serge suit enlivened by a nankeen waistcoat supporting a gold watch- chain. "The Underdog" – F. Hopkinson Smith