dimity
- n a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains
- Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan.
- Hoover appeared wearing a white and blue dimity gown modeled in the fashion of 1870 and copied from one of her mother's photographs.
- For hot summer afternoons batiste, dimity and organdy will be cool and fresh.