BROADCLOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does broadcloth mean? 

• BROADCLOTH (noun)
  The noun BROADCLOTH has 2 senses:

1. a densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish

2. a closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib

  Familiarity information: BROADCLOTH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROADCLOTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A densely textured woolen fabric with a lustrous finish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("broadcloth" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A closely woven silk or synthetic fabric with a narrow crosswise rib

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("broadcloth" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

See to the broadcloth and velvet that the rogues bear upon their backs!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission, but it was bitterly the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)