kersey
noun
a heavy overcoating of wool or wool and cotton, similar to beaver and melton.
kerseys
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pluralof kersey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
