Balzarine

Quick meaning: Balzarine is a noun meaning A lightweight fabric made from cotton and wool, used for summer dresses.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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?

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.

Word Forms

• balzarines

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