Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun nankeen

1 sense of nankeen

Sense 1
nankeen -- (a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color)
       => fabric, cloth, material, textile -- (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress")