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Sentence Examples
| Truss a few starlets into whalebone corsets and swathe them in yards of dimity. |
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| Originally dimity was made of silk or wool, but since the 18th century it has been woven almost exclusively of cotton. |
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| The drapery should always be perfectly white, of dimity, twilled muslin, or other neat strong material. |
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| Relatedly, Professor Dimity Kingsford Smith's work provided some useful insights regarding how information can be presented in a more effective manner using modern technology. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| If the lawn or dimity has a colored figure, the embroidery silk or cotton may match this. |
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| Juliet dropped a big blue denim pillow on the ground and sat down upon it in a flutter of dimity. |
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| Betty says it'll match out her dimity, and I 'low to match Betty as long as I can. |
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| She gloried in the lengths of dimity and poplin, in the intricacies of new stitches and embroidery. |
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| There, on a little white bed with dimity curtains, lay the form of Isobel. |
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| A dark ruffled head and two frightened eyes appeared above the dimity spread. |
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| I wonder if father hasn't got some other dimity in the store. |
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| The little white dimity bed was as smooth and trim as on the day previous, when Betty's own hands had helped to make it. |
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| Aunt Jane six months later mitigated this martyrdom by making her a ruffled dimity pinafore, artfully shaped to conceal all the spots. |
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| One was cambric, one was fine lawn or nainsook, and one of dimity. |
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