"dimmity" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1769, Robert Richardson (D.D., Prebendary of Lincoln.), Archibald James Edward Douglas, (Baron Douglas.), & James George Hamilton (7th Duke of Hamilton.), A State of the Evidence in the Cause between His Grace the Duke of Hammilton and Others, Pursuers, and Archibald Doublas, of Douglas, Esquire, Defender, page 28",
          "text": "Nurse Favre is embarrassed with the English manner of swaddling: instead of flannel, dimmity, and linen, our nurses put dimmity, flannel, and linen; and the outermost swaddling-cloth of dimmity is large and loose, and the child is sometimes left without it; as lady Jane's child probably was, when the French nurse received it in the month of July.",
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          "ref": "1829, Anna Maria Hall, Sketches of Irish character, page 161",
          "text": "Short black silk cloak — white dimmity petticoat — shoes and silver buckles — small black silk bonnet — hardly shading her round good-natured face, were singular gear, even in London; and her rich brogue whenever she inquired, \" if any one could tell her, where Lady Brilliant's, and her young lady's house was in Grosvenor Place,\" caused a universal laugh, which she did not at all relish.",
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          "ref": "1850, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Volume 21, page 60",
          "text": "Tell Mrs. James that they seized my flannel petticoats (although made up), which I had provided for winter wear, and upon muslins and dimmities.",
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          "ref": "2013, Charles Knowles Bolton, Scotch Irish Pioneers In Ulster And America, page 1576",
          "text": "The clothing which he wore is described at some length: To his brother-in-law McClanathan his Camblet coat lined with green, and his black and white jacket; to his brother Samuel Shaw a Duroy coat, brown holland coat, and dimmity jacket; to Alexander Thien his coat with metal buttons.",
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          "text": "The glow became less. An amber cloud turned dull and lost its gold, changing into lead. “Deary dimmity l'” said Mrs. Hammett, sitting up.",
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          "ref": "1948, Chambers's journal, page 232",
          "text": "Av coorse, times was better then — afore I went to sea as a tacker, I worked on a varm, an' I got nine shillun a week an' worked from dawn till after dimmity (dusk), zummer an' winter.",
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