drugget
Americannoun
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Also called India drugget. a rug from India of coarse hair with cotton or jute.
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a fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, used for clothing.
noun
Etymology
Origin of drugget
1570–80; < Middle French droguet worthless stuff (textile), equivalent to drogue trash ( cf. drug 1) + -et -et
Example Sentences
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At length the pursued taxi, careering down a dark side street, drew up in front of the Del Fey Club; Thaw followed a drugget of light on the pavement; a door closed behind him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lawn and the standard roses were formal enough, but there were acacia trees on the left, and, under them, grouped artistically, an Indian drugget, a tea table, and long basket chairs.
From Love's Usuries by Creswicke, Louis
There were few trees, no hedges; and somewhere the cracked bell of a drugget factory or a dye-works was clanging out a monotonous summons.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
Having done this, they stretched a drugget over both drawing-rooms, and placed forms round the room.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Some heavy curtains had been rolled aside, disclosing a space, only a few yards square, which had been covered by a tightly stretched drugget.
From A Monk of Cruta by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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