double-knit

or dou·ble knit, dou·ble·knit

[ duhb-uhl-nit, -nit ]

noun

1. a weft-knit fabric that consists of two single-knit fabrics intimately interlooped.
2. a garment made of such a fabric.

double knit

noun

1. 1. a knitted material made on two sets of needles that produce a double thickness joined with interlocking stitches
   2. ( as modifier )

      a double-knit fabric

Word History and Origins

Origin of double-knit¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Lander Reversible Sweats: These sweats out of Portland are reversible, containing two styles in one, and are made of soft double-knit cotton with no itchy seams, tags or zippers.

From Seattle Times

Something other than their double-knit white uniforms with black and gold trim.

From Los Angeles Times

Lavishly illustrated, it features three excellent essays and traces the extraordinary visual range of the quilts, which can resemble found-object collages, consist entirely of glowing velvets; or elevate double-knit polyester and vintage clothing.

From New York Times

The cardigan has been cult before: think Starsky & Hutch’s Paul Michael Glaser in a double-knit wool, cerillo and merino knit, with belt, or Jeff Bridges as “the Dude” in a Native American-inspired Westerley cardigan in The Big Lebowski.

From The Guardian

For more extravagant departures, she plumbed Eleganza, a defunct catalog replete in its day with shirts bearing floppy nine-inch “dog ear” collars, madly striped flares, leather or denim patchwork coats and two-tone double-knit jumpsuits fashioned, as the catalog copy proclaimed, from “luxurious 100 percent Orlon acrylic!”

From New York Times