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
Example Sentences
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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
He made little noise, for, to save his honour's drugget, he had left his boots in the hall.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
The ball-room should be large; the floor well waxed, or covered-242- with drugget, and an abundance of palms and potted plants set about to make cosy nooks just lighted by a shaded lamp.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.
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 Weyman, Stanley John
The spirit of the noblesse, along with its blood, was undoubtedly under that slender drugget bodice.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
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