drugget

[ druhg-it ]

noun

1. Also called India drugget. a rug from India of coarse hair with cotton or jute.
2. a fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, used for clothing.

drugget

/ ˈdrʌɡɪt /

noun

1. a coarse fabric used as a protective floor-covering, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of drugget¹

1570–80; < Middle French droguet worthless stuff (textile), equivalent to drogue trash ( drug ¹ ) + -et -et

Word History and Origins

Origin of drugget¹

C16: from French droguet useless fabric, from drogue trash

Example Sentences

There is talk of a long, Proustian-seeming narrative, to be called “The Mirror of the Past,” and a couple of Rapallo-era pieces are beautiful exercises in memory: “William and Mary,” a story of an Ibsen- and Morris-loving couple, and “The Golden Drugget,” a meditative essay recalling Max’s first years in Italy.

From The New Yorker

He made little noise, for, to save his honour's drugget, he had left his boots in the hall.

From Project Gutenberg

There were few trees, no hedges; and somewhere the cracked bell of a drugget factory or a dye-works was clanging out a monotonous summons.

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A clownish, dull-faced woman with drugget petticoats showed herself.

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The long bar which ran all its length into the wall was scarcely clear, when a woman, swaddled to her eyes in a thick drugget shawl, pushed in.

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