broadloom

noun, adj — 3 senses

broadloom

noun

Etymology From broad + loom.

1

A wide loom.

2

A carpet woven on a wide loom.

  • And away across the Søren Kierkegaard broadloom he lurched, battling shifts in the horizontal which had grown more pronounced since the ship left New York Harbor.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

broadloom

adj

Etymology From broad + loom.

1

Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.

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