broadcloth
nounUK /ˈbɹɔːdˌklɒθ/ · US /ˈbɹɔdˌklɔθ/
Etymology From broad + cloth.
1
A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
2
Historical A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
- Her fingers tightened slightly on his broadcloth sleeve.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part II, Chapter IV, page 216:
- The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- broadclothed