drugget

From French droguet, from drogue (“cheap”), of uncertain origin.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌɡɪt/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡɪt

drugget (plural druggets)

1. An inexpensive coarse woolen cloth, used mainly for clothing. [from 16^thc.]
2. A floor covering made of drugget. [from 17^thc.]
   • 1838 (date written)​, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, OCLC 1000392275, page 182:

     There was the handsome carpet, new on the occasion of Mr. Gooch's marriage, but it was carefully covered with a drab drugget; the curtains were of a pretty pink damask, but they were enveloped in brown holland bags, by which same material the chairs and sofas were covered.

   • 1904 December, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Second Stain

     This carpet was a small square drugget in the centre of the room […]

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0091:

     There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

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