Gilded youths ride in the Bois, wearing yellow, brown or scarlet frockcoats and tight-fitting white nankeens. |
By 1785 types of cotton fabric generally available included corduroys, jeans, nankeens, erminetts, thicksets, corded tabby and jeanette. |
Here they would sell their furs, take in teas, nankeens, and other merchandise, and return to Boston, after an absence of two or three years. |