cadet cloth

American  

noun

1. a heavy woolen cloth of double-cloth construction and bluish-gray color, used especially for uniforms at military schools.

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Etymology

Origin of cadet cloth

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

Example Sentences

The company makes indigo blue coatings, cassimeres, police, yacht, and cadet cloth, ladies' sackings, beavers, and shawls.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 by Various

Stonewall Jackson, big, too, and to appearance simple, looked under the forage cap, smiled, and with one lean brown finger touched almost timidly the beautiful, spotless cadet cloth.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

Neat uniforms they were, too: of a bluish-grey cadet cloth, and with stiff upstanding collars of a much darker blue upon the points of which were interwoven the familiar device of the bright red star.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward

The uniforms were of the finest cadet cloth and gold lace.

From The Women of the Confederacy by Underwood, J. L.