American cloth
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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They spun and wove American cloth when men renounced British imports.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
The minister used to give them all that, perched on a chair in their midst; and he kept a much fuller hut than I at my rostrum of American cloth.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
I wish we could afford nice table covers, but I am afraid they, and the washing, would cost too much; we must have American cloth, I suppose.
From A Humble Enterprise by Cambridge, Ada
In squeegeeing, the tissue should be uppermost, and a sheet of American cloth laid over it to prevent the squeegee from damaging it.
From Photogravure by Blaney, Henry R.
Why are our clothes not made of American cloth or of American silk?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
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