Nan-keen', n.
n. [Written also nankin.] [So called from its being originally manufactured at Nankin, in China.]
Sense 1. A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton, (the Gossypium religiosum), that is naturally of a yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.
Sense 2. An imitation of this cloth by artificial coloring.