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
A mere drugget compared to this Field of Cloth of Gold.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
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.
Also there was a square of substantial, if somewhat faded, carpet in the middle of Mrs. Thimbleby's threadbare drugget, a mahogany table, and a roomy, comfortable easy-chair, all of which we have seen before.
From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
A clownish, dull-faced woman with drugget petticoats showed herself.
From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.
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