druggets

They are awfully funereal, those ornaments of the close of the last century — tall gloomy horse-hair chairs, mouldy Turkey carpets with wretched druggets to guard them, little cracked sticking-plaster miniatures of people in tours and pigtails over high-shouldered mantelpieces, two dismal urns on each side of

Mens Wives 2006

How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets?

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

Salisbury and all the county of Wilts, of which it is the capital, are full of a great variety of manufactures, and those some of the most considerable in England — namely, the clothing trade and the trade of flannels, druggets, and several other sorts of manufactures, of which in their order.

From London to Land's End 2003

Salisbury and all the county of Wilts, of which it is the capital, are full of a great variety of manufactures, and those some of the most considerable in England — namely, the clothing trade and the trade of flannels, druggets, and several other sorts of manufactures, of which in their order.

From London to Land's End 2003

Salisbury and all the county of Wilts, of which it is the capital, are full of a great variety of manufactures, and those some of the most considerable in England — namely, the clothing trade and the trade of flannels, druggets, and several other sorts of manufactures, of which in their order.

From London to Land's End 2003

"Oh, no, papa," said Jane, innocently; "there are very pretty druggets, now, for covering stair-carpets, so that they can be used without hurting them."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

Though the habit of tearing druggets was the outgrowth of an abnormal impulse, the habit itself lasted longer than it could have done had I not, for so long a time, been deprived of suitable clothes and been held a prisoner in cold cells.

A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909

But what of the strips of felt torn from the druggets?

A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909

The heavy felt druggets were about as plastic as blotting paper and I derived little comfort from them until

A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909

It was occasioned primarily by a "pressure of activity," for which the tearing of druggets served as a vent.

A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909