balzarine

plural balzarines

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

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

   1857, Louisa Anne Meredith, Shadows of a Golden Image

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   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.

   1860, Asahel Clark Kendrick, The Life and Letters of Mrs. Emily C. Judson, page 95

   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?

   2013, M M Kaye, Shadow of the Moon, →ISBN