percale
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- noun
- /pərˈkeɪl/
:
percal
- She chose a white percale fabric to make her new bedspread.
- percale sheets
- cotton percale
Examples
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Disciplinary procedures were inscribed directly on Totonac bodies with legal requirements to wear "proper" western-style clothing: long pants for men and percale shifts for women.
Academic text (1996) -
The hotel provided luxurious cotton percale sheets that felt crisp and refreshing.
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Mother was lying up there on her percale sheets, bare as the day she was born.
Fiction book (1990) -
The other women wore percale and calico, with here and there a headrag among the older ones.
Fiction book (2002) -
A red felt tongue, smooth as the flowered percale sheets on my grandparents' bed, lolled at the top when the wheel was at rest.
Fiction book (1990) -
Fabric types included madras, cheviots, lawns, dimities, and percales, mostly in linen or cotton.
Academic text (2018) -
To feed, coax with homemade delicacies mouths too slack to chew; to wash them, to change their laundry, soft pastel percale, bright flowers.
Fiction book (1994) -
They were fashionably dressed, the men in dark cloth coats and the women in white cotton percale, with intricate lace frills at the neck and sleeves.
Fiction book (1996) -
The soft percale sheets kept me cool during the hot summer nights.
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Percale comes from the French word percale, and one idea traces it back to a Persian word meaning 'a piece of cloth'. So, think of percale as simply a kind of cloth — a fine, closely woven cotton used for sheets.