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Kidderminster|ˈkɪdəmɪnstə(r)|
[The name of a town in Worcestershire.]
1. attrib. Of or pertaining to Kidderminster; spec. the distinctive name of a kind of carpet, originally manufactured there, in which the pattern is formed by the intersection of two cloths of different colours: also called two-ply and ingrain carpet.
1670–1Act 22 & 23 Chas. II, c. 8 Preamble, Abuses..in the makeing of Stuffes called Kidderminster Stuffes. 1685Reflect. Baxter 25 When the Writings of these excel those of R. B. as much as the richest Arras, the meanest Kedderminster-Stuff. 1832Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) VI. 173/1 Double or Kidderminster carpeting is composed of two plies of cloth. Ibid. 174/1 Two-ply Kidderminster Carpet Loom. 1836Penny Cycl. VI. 314/1 Kidderminster or Scotch carpets, or, as the Americans more descriptively term them, ingrain carpets, are wholly of worsted or woollen.
2. absol. = Kidderminster carpet or carpeting. Also attrib.
1836Penny Cycl. VI. 314/2 In Kidderminsters the shoot forms by far the greatest portion of what is visible. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 263 Figured Venetian carpets are woven in the two-ply Kidderminster looms. 1892L. T. Meade Medicine Lady I. viii. 123 A carpet made of faded Kidderminster covered the floor.
Hence ˈKidderminstered a., carpeted with a Kidderminster.
1852Savage R. Medlicott iii. i. (D.), The tradesman's contracted and Kidderminstered parlour. |