Meaning of balzarine | Babel Free

Definitions

A lightweight fabric made from cotton and wool, used for summer dresses.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Originally she had come⟳ to me, possessed but of one gown, and that a forlorn and ragged balzarine, with four draggled, torn flounces.”

“Then I have⟳ little messengers racing "like⟳ mad" through the galleries of my head ; spinning long yarns, and wearing fabrics rich and soft as the balzarine which I so much covet, until I shut⟳ my eyes and stop⟳ my ears and whisk away, with the 'wonderful lamp' safely hidden in my own⟳ brown braids.”

“She was still wearing the crushed and crumpled morning-dress of balzarine that she had put⟳ on in her bedroom at the Abuthnots' bungalow in Delhi Cantonment ... how long ago?”

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