kersey

American  

[kur-zee] / ˈkɜr zi /

noun

• kerseys
  plural

1. a heavy overcoating of wool or wool and cotton, similar to beaver and melton.

2. a coarse twilled woolen cloth with a cotton warp, used especially for work clothes.

3. a garment made of kersey.

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kersey British  

/ ˈkɜːzɪ /

noun

1. a smooth woollen cloth used for overcoats, etc

2. a twilled woollen cloth with a cotton warp

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• kerseys
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of kersey

1400–50; late Middle English; perhaps after Kersey, in Suffolk, England

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

kersey kerseys

We packed big tents on company streets around a chuck wagon where a massive man in comically wide blue kersey trousers served up cold cuts and shoofly pie.

From Salon ● May 28, 2017

While I looked them over, Sander rummaged through an ironbound chest and tossed me a short kersey tunic and a pair of plain breeches.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Brown was such an ugly colour! and the kersey, already worn two seasons, was getting shabby—far too shabby to wear at a party.

From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin

A piece of kersey for my bettermost gown this summer.

From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt

From Samuel Colbeck, of Warley, they were alleged to have stolen sixteen yards of russet-coloured kersey, which the jury valued at 1s. per yard.

From Bygone Punishments by William Andrews

Their women manufacture a coarse cloth and kerseys sufficient for their own consumption.

From History of New Brunswick by Peter Fisher

I intend God willing to goe to Lampas, if I doe I will take foure or fiue kerseys with me, but as for money there is small store here to carie.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt

They could have a "sute" of "dublett and hose of leather lyned with oyled-skin-leather," fastened with hooks and eyes instead of buttons; or one of "hampshire kerseys lyned."

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

To Pennsylvania are exported broad-cloth, kerseys, druggets, serges, and manufactures of all kinds.

From London in 1731 by Don Manoel Gonzales

This company exports baize, kerseys, serges, Norwich stuffs, and other woollen manufactures; stockings, hats, fustians, haberdashery wares, tin, and hardware; as also herrings, pilchards, salted flesh, and grain; linens, pipe- staves, hoops, &c.

From London in 1731 by Don Manoel Gonzales

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