drugget

American  

[druhg-it] / ˈdrʌg ɪt /

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.

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drugget British  

/ ˈdrʌɡɪt /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of drugget

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

Example Sentences

At length the pursued taxi, careering down a dark side street, drew up in front of the Del Fey Club; Thaw followed a drugget of light on the pavement; a door closed behind him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having done this, they stretched a drugget over both drawing-rooms, and placed forms round the room.

From A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Thady Connor worked in the fields, and Grace made a livelihood as a pedlar, carrying a basket of remnants of cloth, calico, drugget, and frieze about the country.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

I made the drugget and matting floor-coverings, the chintz curtains, the dimity bed-furniture—made everything, in fact, that was sewable, for, fortunately, I come of a long line of good needle-women.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada

The man wore a loose drugget coat and an old jockey-cap, and walked with a stout six-foot staff.

From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John