pilot cloth

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Springer, Norman

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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 Murray, David Christie

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

From The Romance of the Coast by Runciman, James

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