"nankeen" meaning in English

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          "taxonomic": "Falco cenchroides",
          "word": "nankeen kestrel"
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          "alt": "also nankeen bird, nankeen crane, nankeen heron",
          "taxonomic": "Nycticorax caledonicus",
          "word": "nankeen night heron"
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          "text": "1885, L. and A. Maude (translators), Leo Tolstoy, \"What Men Live By\", in What Men Live By and Other Tales\nHe put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat."
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          "text": "c. 1910-1920, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Seltzer (translator), A Christmas Tree and a Wedding\nShe was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated."
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        "A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China."
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