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• n  a soft thin cloth woven from raw silk (or an imitation)

• Across the Lowu railroad bridge into Communist China one morning last week bustled the everyday traffic from Hong Kong: pongee-clad farmers hauling produce, old women bent double .
• Restaurateur Mike Romanoff ships his silk and pongee shirts air express to Sulka's in Manhattan for proper laundering.
• On the green before the Pago Pago School, Chief Tupelos, barefooted and dressed in a huge brown helmet, batwing collar, four-in-hand tie, brown pongee coat and a cigar in his .