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Meanings of chine in English

Russian
скула

Polish term for a type of ship element.

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Usage of chine in English
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Have the butcher remove the chine bone and then the flank end.
Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book / Numerous New Recipes Based on Present ...
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The bristly ridge of its chine showed black against the red west.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst o...
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It's too severe for you; that is, black crepe de chine is.
People Like That: A Novel
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You didn't make a mistake with that blue crêpe de chine, child.
Cheerful—By Request
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These crepe de chine dresses tear if you look at them.
Nightfall
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Thought you were going to wear your crepe de chine, Annabel.
Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
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A chine or saddle, from two hours and a half, to three hours.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
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A couple of fowls, a rice-pudding, and a small chine, composed our dinner.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
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If you don't, they'll open it for you-downto the chine!
The Lady of the Shroud
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Then the Yorkshire and Derbyshire Hills-thecentral chine of England.
Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays
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See the white road winding, and the long blue chine yonder, by the sea.
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts: A Book of Stories
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The two loins together are called the chine or saddle.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
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Worked in two shades of blue silk on hand-woven linen or satin de chine.
Handbook of Embroidery
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The old cavalier cut a fresh slice of chine, sighed, and continued his sermon.
London Pride, Or, When the World Was Younger
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Material Crepe de chine or any other soft, clinging fabric.
The Mother and Her Child
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The whispersmith was almost at the entrance to the chine.
Iron Council
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