Crossword-Solution: PONGEE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pongee | n. | A fabric of undyed silk from India and China. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PONGEE | anagram | EPONGE |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PONGEE (5)
And the pongee person was so competent, so quietly sure, so angularly graceful among his brakes and levers.
When I dream of nights I always see a five-room bungalow on the north shore of Long Island, with a Jap cooking clam broth and duckling in the kitchen, and me with the title deeds to the place in my pongee coat pocket, swinging in a hammock on the side porch, reading Stanley’s ‘Explorations into Africa.’ And nobody else around.
Everett also was old; she was sure he must be at least thirty-five; but in his silk pongee and pipe-clayed tennis-shoes he was a refreshing spectacle.
His dusty pongee cloak and soft hat indicated that he had that morning arrived on a round of inspection.
There was a blue pongee suit in a window that she knew—by saving twenty cents a week instead of ten, in—let’s see—Oh, it would run into years! But there was a second-hand store in Seventh Avenue where— Somebody knocked at the door.
Quotes with PONGEE (1)
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in a yellow pongee silk suit. They sniffed cocaine in Mayfair and they penetrated forbidden swamps with a faithful native boy and lived in the native quarter of Tangier smoking hashish and languidly caressing a pet gazelle.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1963–2018).