kersey
Americannoun
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kerseys
plural
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a heavy overcoating of wool or wool and cotton, similar to beaver and melton.
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a coarse twilled woolen cloth with a cotton warp, used especially for work clothes.
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a garment made of kersey.
noun
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a smooth woollen cloth used for overcoats, etc
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a twilled woollen cloth with a cotton warp
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of kersey
1400–50; late Middle English; perhaps after Kersey, in Suffolk, England
Example Sentences
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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
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
“A sorry kersey of twenty pence the yard!”
From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
Thither, in the busy warlike days of 1813-14, had resorted dashing naval officers in their ruffled shirts, heavily laced blue coats, with their huge cocked hats, skin-tight kersey pantaloons, and tasselled half boots.
From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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
He computes, besides, that about one hundred thousand pounds a year had been lost by kerseys; not to mention other articles.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume
In place of Scotch kerseys, his square, massive figure is set off with the golden broidery of a diplomat.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
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
He was dressed in a blue lapelled coat, light waistcoat and kerseys, and Hessian boots.
From Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life by James Payn
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