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Heavy coat cloth
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kersey
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Wikipedia
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Kersey is a kind of coarse woollen cloth that was an important component of the textile trade in Medieval England . It derives its name from kersey yarn and ultimately from the village of Kersey, Suffolk , having presumably originated in that region. However ...
Wiktionary
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n. A type of rough woollen cloth.
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 1389 Housing Units (2000): 489 Land area (2000): 0.974172 sq. miles (2.523093 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.974172 sq. miles (2.523093 sq. km) FIPS code: 40515 Located within: Colorado ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kersey \Ker"sey\, n.; pl. Kerseys . [Prob. from the town of Kersey in Suffolk, Eng.] A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.
Usage examples of kersey.
In plain buffin doublets and kersey stockings and heavy, hobnail shoes, they stood cheek by jowl with artisans in leather jerkins and red Monmouth caps.
Norden dussens or hampshire kersies lynd the hose with skins, dublets with lynen of gilford or gedlyman kerseys.
Twig had made for Charley an adikey of white woolen kersey, and another to wear over it of white moleskin cloth, the hood of the latter trimmed with lynx fur.
Norden dussens or hampshire kersies lynd the hose with skins, dublets with lynen of gilford or gedlyman kerseys.
Well, then he laughs as hearty as if he was a-goin' to pieces, and out he walks agin with his powdered head and pigtail, and rolls down the Strand with the chain hangin' out furder than ever, and the great round watch almost bustin' through his gray kersey smalls.