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

Etymology

Origin of kersey

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

Example Sentences

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

Clare! have a care thou put up Blanche’s blue kersey.

From Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada by Holt, Emily Sarah

Well, let the child wear her brown kersey.

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

And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou’rt a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a list of an English kersey, as be piled, as thou art piled, for a French velvet.

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge