"Turkey red" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... asked Dame Hartley, as she trimmed and lighted the great lamp, and drew the short curtains of Turkey red cotton across the windows. "Is Abner ...
— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... and Katy's—(Bel had Aunt Blin's great flat-topped one now, with its cushion and flounce of Turkey red; and Kate had speedily stitched up a cover for hers to match, of cloth that Mrs. Scherman gave her) stood one each side the chimney,—in the recesses. A red and white patchwork quilt, done in stars, Bel's own work before she ever came ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... in arches crossing street at short intervals, ribbons of turkey red suspended from each lamp ...
— The City of Domes • John D. Barry
... must be large enough to hold two people, one of them Santa Claus with his pack of toys, may consist of a light frame covered with turkey red cambric and backed with cardboard or heavy paper. The cambric should be marked off into bricks. The face is produced by cutting away the cardboard or paper backing behind two bricks for the eyes, one for the nose and two together ...
— Down the Chimney • Shepherd Knapp
... indicated by a farmer not far from Chicago in his use of table coverings, as follows: For the family, oil cloth; for the school teacher, turkey red; for the ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor |
