broadcloth
Noun
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Noun
broadcloth
- A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
- (historical) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. (Reference: broadcloth ↗ in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "The Bishop and the Canary,"
- The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "The Bishop and the Canary,"
- German: Breitgewebe
- Russian: сукно́
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