druggeting

• There was the usual horsehair suite, the usual cheap sideboard, and dingy druggeting of a large geometrical pattern. —  The History of David Grieve
• Already the lights were being extinguished and the ushers spreading druggeting over the upholstered seats. —  McTeague
• She led me through the square hall, wainscoted up to the ceiling with old oak, and having an oaken staircase with very thick balustrades on either side going up from the middle of it, into a long, low room which, with crimson druggeting on the floor, and the same coloured curtains to the windows, looked very cosy and bright in the firelight. —  Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story
• Two paces from the little Savoyard stood an old _pauvre honteux_, sickly and feeble, in wretched garments of ragged druggeting, who asked in a thick, muffled voice: —  The Magic Skin
• she said We went up two flights of stairs covered with rather dirty druggeting, along a corridor that had a thin strip of linoleum, and finally up a third flight that was bare to the boards, until we came to a room which seemed to be at the top of the house and situated in its remotest corner It was a very small apartment, hardly larger than the room over the hall at home in which Aunt Bridget had made me sleep when I was a child, and it was nearly as cold and cheerless The wall-paper, which had once been a flowery pink, was now pale and patternless; the Venetian blind over the window (which looked out on the smaller square) had lost one of its cords and hung at an irregular angle; there was a mirror over the mantelpiece with the silvering much mottled, and a leather-covered easy chair whereof the spring was broken and the seat heavily indented I dare say this will do for the present," said my landlady, and though my heart was in my mouth I compelled myself to agree My terms, including meals and all extras, will be a pound a week," she added, and to that also, with a lump in my throat I assented, whereupon my landlady left me, saying luncheon was on and I could come downstairs when I was ready A talkative cockney chambermaid, with a good little face, brought me a fat blue jug of hot water, and after I had washed and combed I found my way down to the dining-room What I expected to find there I hardly know. —  The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill

Definitions (0)