pilot cloth

British  

noun

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

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pilot cloth

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.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray

Was it not the sea-gear of men?—leather jackets lined with corduroy, blue coats of pilot cloth, sou'westers, sea-boots, oilskins.

From John Barleycorn by Jack London

Here are three guineas; get yourself a suit of pilot cloth at some outfitter's at the East End.

From The Treasure of the Incas by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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

From The Grey Lady by Henry Seton Merriman

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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty