English

WLA vanda Wedding suit of James II, made of grey broadcloth

Noun

broadcloth ‎(plural broadcloths)

1. A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
2. (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.

See also

• kersey

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