POPLIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poplin mean? 

• POPLIN (noun)
  The noun POPLIN has 1 sense:

1. a ribbed fabric used in clothing and upholstery

  Familiarity information: POPLIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPLIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ribbed fabric used in clothing and upholstery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("poplin" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

I have some notion of putting such a trimming as this to my white and silver poplin.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

When the evening for the small party came, she found that the poplin wouldn't do at all, for the other girls were putting on thin dresses and making themselves very fine indeed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now, let me see, there's my new gray walking suit, just curl up the feather in my hat, Beth, then my poplin for Sunday and the small party, it looks heavy for spring, doesn't it?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)