drugget
Americannoun
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Also called India drugget. a rug from India of coarse hair with cotton or jute.
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a fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, used for clothing.
noun
Etymology
Origin of drugget
1570–80; < Middle French droguet worthless stuff (textile), equivalent to drogue trash ( cf. drug 1) + -et -et
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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
Behind him were two of the boys with pikes—frowsy, savage, repellent figures, with drugget coats tied by the sleeves about their necks.
From The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman
Who would recognize him if he wore the dress of a peasant,--a coarse drugget stable coat, for instance?
From Iermola by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
Thady Connor worked in the fields, and Grace made a livelihood as a pedlar, carrying a basket of remnants of cloth, calico, drugget, and frieze about the country.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
The man wore a loose drugget coat and an old jockey-cap, and walked with a stout six-foot staff.
From The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman
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