Canton flannel

English Alternative forms en canton flannel Etymology After Canton, China. Noun ~ A type of soft cotton fabric. 1897, Stephen Crane, The Open Boat, Gateway to the Great Books #3 1963, p. 8: The canton flannel gulls flew near and far. en 1939 w:Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep 127 Penguin 2011 Then I cleaned it thoroughly, oiled, wrapped it in a piece of canton flannel and locked it up. en 1944 w:Emily Carr w:The House of All Sorts Foundation http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100121h.html No house could sit it down, no house blind what my memory saw—a cow, an old white horse, three little girls in pinafores, their arms full of dolls and Canton-flannel rabbits made and stuffed with bran by an aunt References en terms derived from toponyms