shantung
English
    
    Etymology
    
From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 山東/山东 (Shāndōng), Shantung.
Noun
    
shantung (countable and uncountable, plural shantungs)
- A heavy fabric, with a rough surface, made from wild silk.
-  1963, H. E. Bates, “Major of Hussars”, in Seven by Five:- The yellow beer, the light shantung suit and the gleaming white teeth were all alight with the trembling silver reflections that sprang from the sunlight on the water.
 
 
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- A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.
Descendants
    
- → Tagalog: siyantung
Anagrams
    
French
    
    
Further reading
    
- “shantung”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Tagalog
    
    
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