Salemporen.
/ˈsaləmpɔː/ ‘A blue cotton cloth formerly made at Nellore in India, and largely exported to the West Indies, where it was the usual slave cloth’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
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1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xvi. 28/1 This linnen..is called Sarampuras, Cassas, Comsas, Beatillias, Satopassas, and a thousande such like names.
1614 in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1897) II. 32 Salampora, being a broad white cloth.
1680 Notes & Extr. Govt. Rec. Fort St. George iii. (1873) 16 Salampores, Blew, at 14 Pagodas per corge.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3933/4 The Cargo of the Star of the East, consisting of Long Cloth, Sallampoores, Betelles [etc.].
1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 74 8 Bales, each containing 60 Pieces Sallampores blue.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge iii. 36 Wide white petticoat trowsers..made of some strong cotton stuff of the same fabric as the India salampore.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting i. 21 Paid them on arrival with brass wire and blue salempore, or calico.
1883 B. Mitford Through Zulu Country xv. 189 On shelves against the walls are arranged blankets, Salampore cloth, [etc.].
1928 E. Sitwell Five Poems 15 Gaze d' Ispahan and bulchauls, salampores.
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