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drugget|ˈdrʌgɪt| Also 6 Sc. droggitt, drogatt, 8–9 druggit. [a. F. droguet (1555 in Hatz.-Darm.), thence, prob., Sp. droguete, It. droghetto, Ger. droguett. Ulterior origin unknown. Littré suggests derivation from drogue drug as ‘a stuff of little value’; some English writers have assumed a derivation from Drogheda in Ireland, but this is mere wanton conjecture, without any historical basis.] 1. a. Formerly, a kind of stuff, all of wool, or mixed of wool and silk or wool and linen, used for wearing apparel. b. Now, a coarse woollen stuff used for floor-coverings, table-cloths, etc.
1580Lady Errol Let. in Mrs. Pratt Buchan (1858) App. 322 Ane pair of drogatt courtingis. Ibid. 323 Ane pair of courtingis of b[l]ew & quhytt droggitt. 1672Eachard Observ. Answ. Cont. Clergy, One that is in canonical black may..see as far into a millstone, as he that wears a light drugget. 1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1762/4 Several Pieces of Rich Silk Druggets, Serge-Wale, Thred Druggets. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 378 Druggets of Wool, and Thread and Wool. 1721Swift Ep. to Play Wks. 1755 III. ii. 182 In drugget drest, of thirteen pence a yard, See Philip's son. 1727–51Chambers Cycl., Drugget..a sort of stuff, very thin, and narrow, usually all wool, and sometimes half wool and half silk..woven on a worsted chain. 1745Gentl. Mag. 99/1, I remember plain John Dryden..in one uniform cloathing of Norwich drugget. 1832Lytton Eugene A. iii. iv, He wore a spencer of a light brown drugget. 1877M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, A wide corridor, carpeted with warm crimson drugget. 1882Beck Draper's Dict. s.v., Twilled druggets were..known in trade as corded druggets, but when of linen warp and woollen weft, as threaded druggets. 2. †a. A garment or suit of drugget. b. A carpet or floorcloth of drugget.
1713Steele Guardian No. 147 ⁋1 He was married in a plain drugget. 1859Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 10 Putting down the drugget in the drawing-room. 1870M. Bridgman Ro. Lynne xiii, The carpets..remained hidden from sight by the cleanest of druggets. 3. attrib. Made of drugget.
1580[see 1]. 1675Lond. Gaz. No. 980/4 A Drugget Sute lined with green. 1836Sir G. Head Home Tour 160 Dressed in easy loose-fitting costume, viz. a drugget pea-jacket and wide trowsers. 1873Black Pr. Thule xxv. 427 A young lady, dressed in a drugget petticoat. 4. Comb., as drugget-maker.
1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4594/4 Thomas Twaite, late a Drugget maker. Hence ˈdruggeted ppl. a., covered or carpeted with drugget; ˈdruggeting = sense 1 b.
1890Sale-Catal. (Derby), Carpet..Red druggeting. 1893Cornh. Mag. Jan. 29 The drawing-room..is bare of furniture, and druggeted for Edith's skirt-dancing party. |