broadclothedadj.
/ˈbrɔːdklɒθt/, U.S. /ˈbrɔdˌklɔθt/, /ˈbrɑdˌklɑθt/ Wearing broadcloth; dressed in broadcloth.From the 19th cent., frequently with the implication of stolid middle-class respectability.
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woolwardc1315
under line (occasionally in line)c1330
fox-furred1592
furred1592
tuftaffeta1598
tissued?16..
satin1603
silk1603
russet1604
tuftaffety1612
plush1615
sericated1623
sheepskinned1628
silken1640
lawny1647
plushed1650
satined1652
harden1654
sackclotheda1656
bearskinned1694
well-furred?1707
furry1717
brocaded1767
flannelled1784
lawned1798
buckskinned1829
corduroyed1832
silked1837
silkened1841
friezy1849
fustianed1849
velveted1850
buffed1863
buckramed1880
craped1880
crapy1891
velveteened1896
mohaired1914
tweeded1921
tweedy1923
leather1961
1610 Histrio-mastix iv. i. sig. E2 O wher's the honour to my high borne bloud!.. When broad-cloathd trades-man..Is wrapt in riche habiliments of silke.
1843 Dublin Univ. Mag. July 82 Slowly their broad-clothed backs they [sc. the sailors] bend.
1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xvii. 154 The grave, square-bearded, broadclothed burghers, and their portly dames in velvet and three-piled taffeta, looked down from every post of vantage.
1908 Bangor (Maine) Daily News 10 Aug. 4/2 The Lord is just as solicitous for the welfare of the man in blue overalls as He is for the salvation of the broadclothed and brandy-nosed old hypocrite, who sits in an upholstered pew.
2000 D. Galbraith Rising Sun ix. 167 This was the Court of Directors. Sober men all, broadclothed and bewigged.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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