Wigan: alternatives and connections

A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any…

A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garment…

To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait.

A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to…

To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen.

A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adap…

A thin worsted fabric for women's dresses.

A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille.

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made o…

A kind of fabric for women's dresses.

A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, b…

A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of cer…