"Canton flannel" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "After Canton, China.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Canton flannels",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Stephen Crane, The Open Boat, Gateway to the Great Books #3 1963, p. 8",
          "text": "The canton flannel gulls flew near and far."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 127:",
          "text": "Then I cleaned it thoroughly, oiled, wrapped it in a piece of canton flannel and locked it up.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Foundation”, in The House of All Sorts:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of soft cotton fabric."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "cotton",
          "cotton"
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      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "canton flannel"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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  ],
  "word": "Canton flannel"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "After Canton, China.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Canton flannels",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Stephen Crane, The Open Boat, Gateway to the Great Books #3 1963, p. 8",
          "text": "The canton flannel gulls flew near and far."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 127:",
          "text": "Then I cleaned it thoroughly, oiled, wrapped it in a piece of canton flannel and locked it up.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Foundation”, in The House of All Sorts:",
          "text": "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 […]",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of soft cotton fabric."
      ],
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        [
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          "cotton"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "canton flannel"
    }
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  "word": "Canton flannel"
}