broad-cloth

So unless you think Ayres knows something about English that no else does, you can safely ignore his broad-cloth assertion.

Healthy debate « Motivated Grammar 2010

So unless you think Ayres knows something about English that no else does, you can safely ignore his broad-cloth assertion.

2010 February « Motivated Grammar 2010

Again, if it is to be left to the parent's taste, and pecuniary means to clothe their children as they please and as they can, the one in braided broad-cloth and velvet cap, and the other in thread-bare homespun, will they meet as friends and equals?

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

The puritan weavers of Glasgow shall provide them plenty of broad-cloth, when we make a descent from the Highlands; and if the ministers could formerly preach the old women of the Scottish boroughs out of their webs of napery, to make tents to the fellows on

A Legend of Montrose 2008

French rhetorical embellishments: "he no sooner crosses the Channel, than he throws off the brown bob, and plain broad-cloth of British argument, to array himself in the powdered bag, and embroidered silk, of French declamation"

Haunted Britain in the 1970s 2005

They make broad-cloth, and tartan, and linen, of their own wool and flax, sufficient for their own use; as also stockings.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

The new notary wore a white cravat, a shirt of dazzling whiteness adorned with ruby buttons, a waistcoat of red velvet, with trousers and coat of handsome black broad-cloth, made in

Ursula 2006

One man must have been upwards of sixty before I first observed him, and he made then a decent, personable figure in broad-cloth of the best.

Edinburgh Picturesque Notes 2005

“You may read your father,” said Helen MacGregor, turning to her sons, “in what this young Saxon tells us — Wise only when the bonnet is on his head, and the sword is in his hand, he never exchanges the tartan for the broad-cloth, but he runs himself into the miserable intrigues of the Lowlanders, and becomes again, after all he has suffered, their agent — their tool — their slave.”

Rob Roy 2005

His solemn and stern features glared forth from under a blue velvet bonnet, fantastically placed sideways on his head — he had a sound and tough coat of English blue broad-cloth, which, unlike his former vestment, would have stood the tug of all the apprentices in Fleet Street.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004