kersey

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While she was talking her husband had taken down the kersey, and opened it out upon the counter.

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  1. noun A twilled woolen fabric, sometimes with a cotton warp, used for coats.
  2. noun A garment made of this fabric. Often used in the plural.
  3. noun A woolen, often ribbed fabric formerly used for hose and trousers.

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  • Comments by Lydia: Thursday, January 08, 2009 at 10: 48 PM who is the black women about mid way through the commercial? weve narrowed it down to possibly, lisa leslie, jackie joyner kersey, or greg oden —  MarketingShift: Daily Crash Course in Marketing Technology & Brand Management
  • For common days, there_, thy blue kersey is full good enough Without any answer, and deliberately ignoring the presence of Blanche, Rachel stalked away It was a weary interval until Sir Thomas, returned. —  Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada
  • "Sarve him right," said Mr. Wormit. If Jem had known what Mr. Wormit knew, or a tenth part of it, he would have made sure that he had not the ghost of a chance with such a man So Kennedy and his dangling cowries, his corded kersey-mere shorts, his blue knitted hose and silver buckles, had honour in Loafer Land, and every hulking rascal who carried the pattern of the ornamental wrought-iron posts at the gates of the "Green Dragon" yard permanently imprinted in the small of his back, swore by him just as much as did Wormit the landlord. —  Patsy
  • His dress is a jacket, made of the coarsest red kersey, and a pair of trowsers; but on Sundays, he is drest in nankeen. —  An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
  • The chief sent to borrow 500 dollars, which I refused to lend, but sent him two yards of fine coloured kersey, and a knife of my own. —  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
 

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  1. Middle English kersei, after Kersey, a village of southeast England.

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  1. Formerly also carsey, carsaye; said to be so called from Kersey, a village near Hadleigh in Suffolk, England, where a woolen trade was once carried on. The D. karsaai, G. Danish kersei, kirsei, Swedish kersey, French carisée, cariset, carisel = Spanish Italian carisea, kersey, are then from English The Old French cresy (Palsgrave), French créseau, coarse twilled cloth, is apparently unrelated.
 

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