shirting's Usage Examples:

wide (the extremes being used on the one hand for children's cots or ship bunks and on the other for old-fashioned four-posters), which may be either plain or twilled, bleached, unbleached or half-bleached; (2) a grey calico, heavier than a shirting, sent largely to China and other markets, usually 36 in.

Other products and their values in 1900 and 1905 were as follows: brown or bleached sheetings and shirtings, 283,105,383 sq.

The imports are mainly white longcloth, grey shirting, rice, jowaree, dates and sugar.

Coarse fabrics chiefly are manufactured, but the product also comprises percales, fine calicoes, ginghams, shirtings, towelings, sheetings and other kinds of goods.

The leading manufactures are ginghams, tweeds and shirtings, and the town is also an important agricultural centre, stock sales taking place at regular intervals and cattle and horse fairs being held every year.

The jacconet is a plain cloth, lighter than a shirting and heavier than a mull.

The principal articles of import are shirtings, drills, jeans and twills, opium, woollens, steel, lead, needles, J apanese sea-weed and sugar; and of export, wool, skins, beans and pease, straw braid, coal, dates, tobacco and rhubarb.

Fabric patterns can include shirting and ticking patterns as well as gingham, check and plaid.

A small, subtle plaid in a cotton shirting fabric and slim collar.

In weight it is lighter than a shirting, and it is usually ornamented with a distinctive coloured heading.

The principal China market for shirtings and other staple goods is Shanghai, which holds a large stock and distributes to minor markets.

The chief articles of import are cotton goods (European white longcloth and American grey shirting), rice and jowari, flour, dates, sugar and tobacco (the last from Rotterdam).

The export shirting trade is done mainly on "repeat" orders for well-known "chops" or marks.

Synonyms:

textile, material, shirt, cloth, fabric,

Antonyms:

natural object, conductor, insulator, immateriality, unbodied,