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

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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

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

The fashionable overcoat in winter is a Chesterfield or single-breasted frock of kersey or like material in brown, blue, or black, with velvet collar.

From The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men by Walter Germain

Above these dangled the legs of a pair of petticoat breeches, of coarse kersey, which strangely contrasted with the costly character of the boots.

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

Those fine popinjays in starched kerseys and pink frills, who live in luxury at railway centres, think that it adds to their dignity if they convert their most trivial messages into cipher.

From On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James

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

Baizes, plain cloths, and kerseys were the most important of the manufactures, and there was some commerce in these with Spain.

From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote

As for his own remuneration, the new viceroy, as he could expect nothing from the Queen, would be content with permission to export six thousand kerseys and clothes, free of duty.

From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by James Godkin

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

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