shantung

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 山東／山东 (Shāndōng), Shantung.

shantung (countable and uncountable, plural shantungs)

1. A type of Chinese silk, originally undyed.
   • 1915, DH Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage 2011, p. 442:

     As she walked, the soft silk of her dress – she wore a blue shantung, full-skirted – blew away from the sea and flapped and clung to her legs.

   • 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.

2. A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics.

• → Tagalog: siyantung

• T'ung-shan

shantung m (plural shantungs)

1. alternative spelling of chantoung

• “shantung”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

shantung m (plural shantungs)

1. shantung

shantung (Baybayin spelling ᜐ᜔ᜌᜈ᜔ᜆᜓᜅ᜔)

1. alternative spelling of siyantung