pilot cloth

British  

noun

1. a type of thick blue cloth used esp to make sailor's coats

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pilot cloth

A skirtless loose rough coat, made of Flushing or pilot cloth.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The men who stand in groups in the street and on the wharf are all clad in blue guernseys or duck smocks and trousers of pilot cloth or canvas.

From A Chapter of Adventures by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

He felt much more at home in pilot cloth than in cashmere.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

The old man was dressed in his best pilot cloth suit. 

From The Grey Lady by Merriman, Henry Seton

In the stern sheets sat a tall, upright figure, the tiller ropes in either hand, dressed in a monkey jacket, pilot cloth trousers, and a sailor’s cap.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux