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jaconet

  • /ˈd͡ʒækənɪt/

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From Hindi जगन्नाथ (jagannāth) / Urdu جگنّاتھ (jagannāth), former name of Puri in India, where the material came from. Compare juggernaut.

noun jaconets · jaconnet · jackonet

  1. countable, uncountable A type of cotton cloth, especially as dyed and waterproofed. It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the spri

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@misc{jaconet_2026,
  title = {jaconet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/jaconet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}