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Ratteen   Listen
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Ratteen  n.  A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ratteen" Quotes from Famous Books



... Since waiting-women, like exacting jades, Hold up the prices of their old brocades; We'll dress in manufactures made at home; Equip our kings and generals at the Comb.[2] We'll rig from Meath Street Egypt's haughty queen And Antony shall court her in ratteen. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad, And Scipio trail an Irish purple plaid, In drugget drest, of thirteen pence a-yard, See Philip's son amidst his Persian guard; And proud Roxana, fired with jealous rage, With fifty yards of crape shall sweep the stage. In short, ...
— The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume I (of 2) • Jonathan Swift



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