paduasoy造句

• Among his requests, if they could be had cheaply, were " About 13 yds of good bla : paduasoy ".
• Paduasoy silk was woven in a variation of the satin weave, with bindings arranged to create fine cross-ridges across the fabric.
• In the British East India Company supercargoes'records, examined by Leanna Lee-Whitman, " paduasoy " made its first appearance in 1736.
• In Elizabeth Gaskell's " Cranford " ( 1851 ), an old white paduasoy wedding dress longed for by Miss Matty's mother has been recut into a christening cloak for a baby.
• Beatrix Potter employed paduasoy to set the old-fashioned scene in " The Tailor of Gloucester ", which begins, " In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
• Beatrix Potter employed paduasoy to set the old-fashioned scene in " The Tailor of Gloucester ", which begins, " In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
• Its fine appearance is endorsed in a letter of Mrs . Benjamin Franklin to her husband in London, in 1765 : " The chairs are plain horsehair and look as well as Paduasoy . " In the British East India records consulted by Leanna Lee-Whitman, black paduasoys completely supplanted " plain " ones after 1761 : George Washington commissioned a friend, Tench Tilghman, to purchase numerous household items, " if " great bargains " are to be had ", from the cargo of a ship in the China trade that had docked at Baltimore and were to be auctioned in October 1785.