shantung

8 letters · noun · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr

noun

a heavy silk fabric with a rough surface (or a cotton imitation)

Shantung in a sentence

As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.

Taking advantage of the European war in 1914, Japan seized the German possessions in Shantung, which she promptly enlarged.

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