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A rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling
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drugget
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing. (from 16 th c.) 2 A floor covering made of drugget. (from 17 th c.)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drugget \Drug"get\, n. [F. droguet, prop. dim. of drogue trash, stuff, perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, Ir. & Gael. droch, Arm. droug, drouk. See 3d Drug .] A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Druggett or drugget is "a coarse woollen fabric felted or woven, self-coloured or printed one side". Jonathan Swift refers to being "in druggets drest, of thirteen pence a yard" . Formerly, a drugget was a sort of cheap stuff , very thin and narrow, usually ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There was no longer any carpet underfoot - merely drugget , a material he recalled from nineteenth-century novels dealing with servants' quarters.
Usage examples of drugget.
I questioned the servant who swept the room next morning, and she tells me there were gravelly marks near the window, on this plain drugget that goes round the carpet.
I made a clear footmark on the soft gravel outside the French window, and several on the drugget round the carpet.
The staircase of the building looked extremely neat and orderly, yet in no way luxurious--being lined only with drugget pinned down with highly-polished brass rods.
God smiled on me, and with His paternal hand invited me to seat myself in His house, on His red drugget, in His gilt armchair.
Shall draw on you per next post, in favour of Messieurs John Drugget and company, at fourteen days, which doubt not your honouring, and am, Sir, your humble servant, SAM COSGRAVE.
A gentleman assisted Carrie to a seat, and I expressed myself pretty strongly on the danger of having a plain polished floor with no carpet or drugget to prevent people slipping.
It had the usual side- board, dining-table, looking-glass, scroll fender, marble chimney-piece with a clock on it, carpet with a drugget over it, and wire window-blinds to keep people from looking in, characteristic of all respectable London parlors of the middle class.
The room was bare, a few benches, some chairs bolted down, a rough drugget on the floor, foot trails worn in it, little attempt beyond a coat of paint to soften the sense of being locked inside an odd-shaped metal box.
There were one or two chairs placed behind a red drugget curtain, where adventurous spirits led their partners later in the evening.
The pinlights showed her rough plaster walls, a pale splintery wood floor with a narrow hessian drugget down the middle.
A right-angle turn, the drugget changing to a thick soft carpet that glowed mulberry red in the pinlight beams.
Persia nets, anterines, silks for scarves and hoods, shalloons, druggets, and some Scotch plaids.
A threadbare patch of Brussels carpet swarmed with roses and lilies, amid a desert of colorless drugget.