drugget

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  1. noun A heavy felted fabric of wool or wool and cotton, used as a floor covering.
  2. noun A coarse rug of this fabric, made in India.
  3. noun A fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, formerly used for clothing.

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  • Properly, Le Moine Bourru, the ghost of a monk dressed in drugget ( bure ). —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • The art serge had faded; the drugget was dropping to pieces, worn with many feet; the wood-work had shrunk more than ever, and draughts, keen as knives, cut through the rooms and passages. —  The Judgment of Eve
  • But she laid no claim to prettiness now, and dressed as plainly as feminine propriety would allow As she sat in the linen and drugget-covered parlour, which was a drawing-room when in full-dress, she could not help a half-conscious restraint creeping over her. —  Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
  • The carpet is covered with a drugget, the ornaments are covered with glass shades, the fire-screen is covered with crackly oilskin. —  More about Pixie
  • Ella, a large umbrella held over her head by the door-keeper, stepped up the little strip of drugget which led into the softly-warmed hall of the Leeland. —  The Black Box
 

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  1. French droguet, probably from drogue, drug, worthless object; see drug.

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  1. = German droguett = Spanish Portuguese droguete = Italian droghetto, from French droguet, drugget, formerly a kind of stuff half silk, half wool. Origin unknown. There is nothing to show a connection with drug.
 

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/ˈdrəgɛt/
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