nankeen

noun

1. a firm, durable, yellow or buff fabric, formerly made from a natural-colored Chinese cotton.
2. a twilled material made from other cotton and dyed in imitation of this fabric.
3. nankeens, garments made of this material.
4. a yellow or buff color.
5. Also called Nankeen porcelain, Nanking china, Nanking ware. a type of Chinese porcelain having blue ornament on a white ground.

noun

1. a hard-wearing buff-coloured cotton fabric
2. 1. a pale greyish-yellow colour
   2. (as adjective)a nankeen carpet

n.kind of cotton cloth, 1755, from Nanking, China, where it originally was made.