drugget

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈdɹʌɡɪt/ (UK)

Definition of drugget

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A floor covering made of drugget.
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “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).”

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Etymology

From French droguet, from drogue (“cheap”), of uncertain origin.

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