Dornick
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A short encyclopedia entry defining dornick (also spelled dornic or dornock) as a stout linen cloth woven in a simple diaper pattern. It gives the origin of the name from Dornich, or Tournay, in the Netherlands, and notes the likely spread of manufacture to Norfolk, England, with Dutch emigrants fleeing the Duke of Alva's persecution.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1922
- Language
- English
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- 1
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