hernani

A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.

Noun

  1. A thin silk or woollen material for women's dresses.
    • Hernani, silk and cotton […] Hernani, entirely of silk - 1837, Joseph Blunt, The Shipmaster's Assistant and Commercial Digest, page 661:
    • A novelty this season is the wide mesh hernani in all colors; […] - 1870, Godey's Lady's Book, volumes 80-81, page 493:
    • I wanted, you understand, to get an entire new waist and a trimmed skirt out of the two old hernani skirts, and discard the old waist altogether; […] - 1881, Arthur's Home Magazine, volume 49, page 482:

Origin

From the town of Hernani in Spain.

Forms

hernanis