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pilot cloth

noun

  1. a type of thick blue cloth used esp to make sailor's coats
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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

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

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

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

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