Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse woolen cloth, mentioned as late as 1739.
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The first scene of gayety upon which the chilled baby opened his sad eyes was when his mother was taken from her great bed and "laid on a pallat," and the heavy curtains and valances of harrateen or serge were hung within and freshened with "curteyns and vallants of cheney or calico."
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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