diagonal cloth

noun

1. a twilled fabric woven with distinctly diagonal lines.

Word History and Origins

Origin of diagonal cloth¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

The old Street of the Turks was at that time an abandoned corner where the last Arabs were letting themselves be dragged off to death with the age-old custom of sitting in their doorways, although it had been many years since they had sold the last yard of diagonal cloth, and in the shadowy showcases only the decapitated manikins remained.

From Literature

The oatmeal cloth, diagonal cloth, cotton-backed satin, velveteen and plush, so much used now, are very inferior materials as grounds for needlework to the hand-loom linens and silks on which so large a part of the old embroidery remaining to us was worked.

From Project Gutenberg

Crewel is suitable for embroidery on all kinds of linen—on plain or diagonal cloth, serge, flannel, &c.

From Project Gutenberg

Soft or Super Serge, also fifty-four inches wide, is an excellent material, much superior in appearance to diagonal cloth, or to the ordinary rough serge.

From Project Gutenberg

Curtain Borders, on Serge or Diagonal Cloth, from £2 10s. to £10 10s., about 3½ yards long.

From Project Gutenberg