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Updated: June 12, 2025
Nankeens became at once one of the chief articles of sale in drygoods shops. Though Fairholt says they were not exported to America till 1825, I find them advertised in the Boston Evening Post of 1761. Shawls appeared in shopkeepers' lists. The first notice that I have seen is in the Salem Gazette of 1784 "a rich sortment of shawls."
Yea, forsooth, it was all in his buttons as they winked slyly one to another as much as to say: "Aha! we don't know why his Lordship's nankeens are greened at the knees, not we! nor why the gent's lower lip is unduly swelled. Lord love your eyes and limbs, oh no!" "What, my imp of innocence!" exclaimed the Viscount. "Where have you sprung from?" "'Edge, m'lud."
Batavia, Bencoolen, and Achen; the principal articles of export from these islands are cloves, nutmegs, camphire, pepper, sago, drugs, bichedemer, birds' nests, gold dust, ivory, areca nuts, benzoin, tin, &c.: the imports are tea, alum, nankeens, silks, opium, piece goods, cotton, rice, and European manufactures.
The first word is 'fifty per cent'; he belongs to the race of Harpagon; he'll take canary birds at all seasons, fur tippets in summer, nankeens in winter. What securities are you going to offer him? Gobseck! Gobseck! in the name of virtuous folly, who told you to go to that commercial guillotine?" "Monsieur du Tillet." "Ah! the scoundrel, I recognize him! We used to be friends.
"Well, then, as I came out on Alain Street, I passed some ladies who accused me of being on my way here, and who impressed it upon me that I must tell you of the last displays of women-wear: painted and velvet ribbons, I think they said, and crepe scarfs, and chintzes and nankeens and moreens and sarcenets, and oh yes!-some muslinette jackets tamboured with gold and silver.
"You can go search for Esther," she said, at the end of a long pause that became anxious for both her guests. "Esther 'd like to see her;" and William in his pale nankeens disappeared with one light step and was off. "Don't speak too loud, it jars a person's head," directed Mrs. Hight plainly. "Clear an' distinct is what reaches me best. Any news to the Landin'?"
If you had my nankeens on," said the squire, still rubbing himself, "and had fallen into a thicket of thistles, with a donkey's teeth within an inch of your ear " "It is not gone, then?" interrupted the parson. "No, that is, I think not," said the squire, dubiously; and he clapped his hand to the organ in question. "No! it is not gone!" "Thank Heaven!" said the good clergyman, kindly.
I was sitting before the looking-glass, and had just finished tying my cravat, when Mettle cam bouncing into the room; he looked up in my face inquisitively, and, to unriddle mair o' the matter, placed his unwashed paws upon my unsoiled nankeens. Every particular claw left its ugly impression. It was provoking beyond endurance.
And why? simply that I might come to surpass you in virtue, learning, wit, and appearance, and so win our Uncle George's regard, and, incidentally, his legacy. But I was a young demon, romping with the grooms in the stable, while you were a young angel in nankeens, passing studious hours with your books.
Vernon, I don't know myself by that name." "Down the middle; we are all waiting for you," shouted Ardworth. And down the middle, with wondrous grace, glided the exquisite nankeens of Charley Vernon.
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