shantung
IPA: ʃˈɑntʌŋ
noun
- A heavy fabric, with a rough surface, made from wild silk.
- A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.
- Alternative form of Shandong [A coastal province of China, part of the East China region. Capital: Jinan]
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Examples of "shantung" in Sentences
- But exotic, bizarre words like "chivari" and "shantung" and "Asscher" have never been in my vocabulary before now.
- For forays into the city, there were three-piece suits and for the evening a tuxedo in silk shantung, cream with black lapels and tie.
- Ralph Lauren Ralph Lauren gave his embroidered looks an exotic, Far East twist, as in this look with its red silk shantung embroidered smoking jacket.
- 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.
- The only problem with the embroidered shantung fabric was how hard it was to match the hummingbirds and delicate bee balm flowers of the valance with the curtain fabric.
- 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.
- Black Chambray and Vintage Leaf Two Tone: a classic black chambray front's offset by a back made from a loose-leaf pattern "clearly inspired by Japanese paintings" on '50s-era rayon shantung, not to be confused with rayon Wang Chung, as that only comes in Dance Hall grays.
- I remember a red gingham dress embellished with red ric rac, a black and blue plaid with black velvet collar and cuffs, a lovely cream with tiny red rosettes and one of those big collars trimmed in cream - colored eyelet, a salmon shantung that I wore for graduation from high school, and my very favorite -- a cream with pink and periwinkle flowers.
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