Drugget

Quick meaning: Drugget is a noun meaning An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing.

Meaning

An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing.

More Meanings

1. A floor covering made of drugget.

Example Sentences

This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room[…]

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

There was the handsome carpet, new on the occasion of Mr. Gooch's marriage, but it was carefully covered with a drab drugget; the curtains were of a pretty pink damask, but they were enveloped in brown holland bags, by which same material the chairs and sofas were covered.

Bradshaw is always ready to talk 'manufactories', and here he confides that the town [Basingstoke] "carried on a rather considerable business in druggets, which has since fallen off". (Druggets has me reaching for my dictionary - it refers to a coarse woollen fabric used to make floor coverings).

Word Forms

• druggets

Related Words

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