Broadcloth

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:15:08

Broad"cloth (?), n.

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.

 

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