drugget

American  

[druhg-it] / ˈdrʌg ɪt /

noun

1. Also called India drugget.  a rug from India of coarse hair with cotton or jute.

2. a fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, used for clothing.

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drugget British  

/ ˈdrʌɡɪt /

noun

1. a coarse fabric used as a protective floor-covering, etc

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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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drugget

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

I made the drugget and matting floor-coverings, the chintz curtains, the dimity bed-furniture—made everything, in fact, that was sewable, for, fortunately, I come of a long line of good needle-women.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

To this great desire all else must yield, and Fanny would rather be fair in drugget than be a Queen with an ugly face.

From The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Harry Clarke

And, while every one was wondering whose music it could be, a woman glided out from behind a screen, and stood for a second swaying herself slightly in the centre of the drugget.

From A Monk of Cruta by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The little stretch of drugget looked mean and bare.

From A Monk of Cruta by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim