30 April 2017
poplin
[pop-lin]
noun
1. a finely corded fabric of cotton, rayon, silk, or wool, for dresses, draperies, etc.
Origin of poplin
French, Italian
1700-1710; < French popeline, earlier papeline < Italian papalina, feminine of papalino papal; so called from being made at the papal city of Avignon. See papal, -ine1
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Examples from the Web for poplin
Historical Examples
She put her hand on Lucy Ann’s shoulder, to give her a little shake; but, feeling mother’s poplin, she forbore.
Tiverton Tales
Alice Brown
Even in the shade one is grateful for white duck instead of woolens, so before long I had acquired an Irish poplin coat.
The Pacific Triangle
Sydney Greenbie
Perhaps it was the royalty of the poplin that enwrapped her; but Lucy Ann looked very capable of holding her own.
Tiverton Tales
Alice Brown
Rob, foreseeing this question, had been engaged in a hasty mental estimate of the original cost of the poplin and the silk.
The Little Grey House
Marion Ames Taggart
The walls were hung with the finest Irish poplin and decorated by the most noted artists of the time.
One Irish Summer
William Eleroy Curtis
poplin or popeline is a name given to a class of goods distinguished by a rib or cord effect running width way of the piece.
Textiles
William H. Dooley
She wore a pink silk dress of Irish poplin, and on her head was a diamond tiara.
In the Days of Queen Victoria
Eva March Tappan
Anagram
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Today’s quote
The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we’re non-judgmental.
– Herbie Hancock
On this day
30 April – International Jazz Day.
30 April – Walpurgis Night (also called Hexennacht – which translates as Witches Night), held on the eve of St Walpurga’s Feast Day. In Germany it’s reputedly the night when witches celebrate the coming of the Spring (which occurs on 1 May) on the Brocken (the highest peak in Northern Germany). Heavy metal band, Black Sabbath, originally named one of their songs Walpurgis, but were told by their record company that it wasn’t acceptable because of the connation with Satanism, so the song was renamed War Pigs, although the lyrics remained the same. Sabbath’s bassist, Geezer Butler said of the song, ‘Walpurgis is sort of like Christmas for Satanists. And to me, war was the big Satan. It wasn’t about politics or government or anything. It was [about] evil. So I was saying ‘generals gathered in the masses / just like witches at black masses’ to make an analogy‘.
30 April 1945 – German Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, commit suicide in a bunker in Germany. Hitler had been Chancellor of Germany since 2 August 1934. He was born in Austria on 20 April 1889.
30 April 1975 – the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnamese civil war, when North Vietnamese tanks rumbled into Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam, defeating the South Vietnamese army, United States military and her allies. The Fall was preceded by the largest helicopter evacuation in history, known as Operation Frequent Wind, in which 7,000 American military and civilians were evacuated. Weeks earlier, Operation Baby Lift had evacuated 2,000 orphan babies. Operation New Life evacuated 110,000 Vietnamese refugees. Tens of thousands of Vietnamese evacuated by land and sea. Following the communist take-over, hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese fled the country, resulting in a surge of refugees worldwide. 30 April and 1 May are celebrated in Vietnam as Liberation Day or Reunification Day. Those who fled refer to it as Black April.