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Meanings of broadcloth in English

Russian
cукно
Portuguese
tecido de lã
Spanish
sarga de lana
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Dense, fulled, plain woven cloth, historically made of wool.

        cукно
        Usage of broadcloth in English
        1
        The two statesmen were in broadcloth and white linen and beaver hats.
        The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
        2
        And I'd shave the wild-beast skin and make the wool into broadcloth.
        North and South
        3
        They hung the church all over with black broadcloth of the best.
        Sisters
        4
        Marty, Marty in broadcloth, and she had put it in his hands.
        Who Cares? A Story of Adolescence
        5
        The broadcloth and beaver of her metropolitan sisters puzzled and dismayed him.
        Madcap
        6
        Mr. Eliphalet Hopper, in his Sunday-best broadcloth was a marvel of propriety.
        The Crisis — Complete
        7
        He came looking very nice, very gentlemanly, in broadcloth and cambric cravat.
        Memories of Hawthorne
        8
        His broadcloth trousers and his patent-leather pumps would be worse than rags.
        We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
        9
        My frock coat was of West of England broadcloth, shiny and smooth.
        Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland
        10
        A riding-frock of a handsome drab-colored broadcloth, with plain double gilt buttons.
        Life of George Washington — Volume 01
        11
        I never, until yesterday, saw that butler out of superfine black broadcloth.
        The Uncommercial Traveller
        12
        They're just the thing to take a nigger's eye-good thick blue broadcloth.
        A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle
        13
        He regularly wore black broadcloth when he went out of the house.
        East of eden
        14
        They are powerful in ships; and in watches and broadcloth unrivalled.'
        The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
        15
        I met him in the turnpike last Sunday in a brand new broadcloth.
        The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
        16
        You wear black broadcloth-ifyou have it-inAugust and January, just the same.
        Roughing It
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