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Definition of Osnaburgs
1. osnaburg [n] - See also: osnaburg
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osnaburgs
Literary usage of Osnaburgs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser by John Paul Campbell (1854)
"... four hundred thousand yards of GEORGIA PLAIN'S, for negroes' winter clothing,
and three hundred and fifty thousand yards of STRIPED COTTON osnaburgs, ..."
2. Select Committee on the Extinction of Slavery Throughout the British by Great Britain Committee on Slavery (1833)
"5 20 168 1820 208 216 . i 2431 yards osnaburgs. 100 Shares of . . 4.,% . 480 yards
long ells. 20 — of . . 34 . . 70 .. 175 yards check. 42 Shares of . ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1851)
"Heavy 4-4 sheetings Duck and sheetings Twills and osnaburgs..... Duck, Ac Muslin
Heavy 4-4 ... osnaburgs and twills-.. Cotton duck Tarn, carpet chain, iV<л. ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1851)
"Heavy 4-4 sheetings Duck and sheetings Twills and osnaburgs Duck, ... osnaburgs and
twills, Sheetings and shirtings... Sheetings and shirtings. ..."
5. De Bow's Review by Making of America Project (1850)
"In the manufacture of seven-eights osnaburgs, weighing eight ounces to the yard,
... The cost of weaving the osnaburgs must be more than three cents per й>. ..."
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