drugget

American  

[druhg-it] / ˈdrʌg ɪt /

noun

1. Also called India drugget.  a rug from India of coarse hair with cotton or jute.

2. a fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, used for clothing.

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drugget British  

/ ˈdrʌɡɪt /

noun

1. a coarse fabric used as a protective floor-covering, etc

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Etymology

Origin of drugget

1570–80; < Middle French droguet worthless stuff (textile), equivalent to drogue trash ( cf. drug ¹) + -et -et

Example Sentences

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drugget

At length the pursued taxi, careering down a dark side street, drew up in front of the Del Fey Club; Thaw followed a drugget of light on the pavement; a door closed behind him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some heavy curtains had been rolled aside, disclosing a space, only a few yards square, which had been covered by a tightly stretched drugget.

From A Monk of Cruta by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

The centre of the room was clear of furniture, and upon the carpet in that clear space was laid a purple drugget; and on the drugget opposite to one another stood two strong wooden crutches.

From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

The houses become suddenly decorated with banners, blankets, and pieces of drugget suspended from the windows, and the inhabitants welcome us with loud cheers and 'vivas.'

From The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba by Goodman, Walter

The long bar which ran all its length into the wall was scarcely clear, when a woman, swaddled to her eyes in a thick drugget shawl, pushed in.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.