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

And whipping off her thick drugget shawl--they made such shawls in Kendal--she wrapped it about the girl, snatched up the child, and set off running and walking along the road.

From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman

Just then a stream of water descended through the cracked bedroom ceiling, first upon the back of ’Phemie’s neck, and then upon the drugget which covered the floor.

From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe

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

He made little noise, for, to save his honour's drugget, he had left his boots in the hall.

From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman