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moreen

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moreen (countable anduncountable,pluralmoreens)

(archaic) A thickwoollenfabric,watered or withembossedfigures, once used inupholstery, forcurtains, etc. It is a variety ofcamlet.
- 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym;Charlotte Brontë], chapter I, inJane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), London:Smith, Elder, and Co., […],→OCLC:
  I mounted into the window-seat: gathering up my feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the redmoreen curtain nearly close, I was shrined in double retirement.
- 1847 January –1848 July,William Makepeace Thackeray,Vanity Fair […], London:Bradbury and Evans […], published1848,→OCLC:
  Briggs cried, and Becky laughed a great deal and kissed the gentlewoman as soon as they got into the passage; and thence into Mrs. Bowls's front parlour, with the redmoreen curtains, and the round looking-glass[…]
- 1872, [Walter Besant,James Rice], chapter 1, inReady-money Mortiboy. A Matter-of-fact Story. […], volume I, London:Tinsley Brothers, […],→OCLC,page 3:
  Ready-money Mortiboy's parlour is a gaunt, cold room, with long, narrow windows, wire blinds, horsehair chairs, a horsehair sofa, redmoreen curtains, and a round table with a red cover reaching to the floor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition ofWebster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for“moreen”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.)

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Mereon

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