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
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)
At last, to his unspeakable joy, he discovered it under a piece of tattered drugget.
From The Brass Bottle by Anstey, F.
Behind him were two of the boys with pikes—frowsy, savage, repellent figures, with drugget coats tied by the sleeves about their necks.
From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John
The latter wears an unassuming robe of lustrous and well-fitting grey drugget, that, however, sets off her ample proportions.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène
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