pilot cloth

noun

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

Example Sentences

His short sturdy frame was clothed in a slop suit of pilot cloth, and a plain cap with a heavy peak completed the picture.

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His suit was of pilot cloth, and he wore a guernsey.

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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.

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

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He was smartly attired in a suit of blue pilot cloth with brass anchor buttons, and there was a band of tarnished gold lace around the peaked cap which he nursed upon his knees.

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