pilot cloth

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

From South Sea Tales by London, Jack

He felt much more at home in pilot cloth than in cashmere.

From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton

In the stern sheets sat a tall, upright figure, the tiller ropes in either hand, dressed in a monkey jacket, pilot cloth trousers, and a sailor’s cap.

From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Walmsley, Hugh Mulleneux