pilot cloth

noun

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

Example Sentences

He wore a thick coat of blue pilot-cloth, not because the July day was cold, but because it was his best coat.

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He wore a pair of blue pilot cloth trousers, a vest with brass buttons and an old-fashioned swallow-tailed coat.

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Two days after the Veteran was strolling along the quay in all the glory of white duck and blue pilot cloth.

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When he reaches the age of sixteen, the fisher-lad clothes himself in thick pilot-cloth and wears a braided cap on Sundays.

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He put on a coat of pilot cloth, unhooked the barometer, and stowed it away in a capacious pocket.

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