How To Use Broadcloth In A Sentence
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His dress suited his pretensions -- the soft rich broadcloth which tailors called doeskin, and linen of a fineness rare outside the eastern cities.
The Path of the King
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Once the shirt went away, all of the mills that made fine broadcloth shirting fabric disappeared.
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a philanthropist, whom a true and noble woman, also a philanthropist, should have delighted to honor; whose disinterested and resolute efforts, for the redemption of poor humanity, all independent and faithful minds should sustain, since the "broadcloth" vulgar will be sure to assail them; a philosopher, worthy of the palmy times of ancient Greece;
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I
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The scratch of the pink oxford broadcloth of his shirt, the feel of his chin resting on my wig, our hips nearly touching.
Anhedonia (excerpt 2)
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She looked up from the blue broadcloth she had spotted out of the corner of her eye.
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He was richly dressed in the finest of broadcloth and the whitest of linen, with a great gold watch-chain, and studs and spectacles of the same precious material.
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The Rolls Royce of them all was surely broadcloth, which in the eighteenth century was a superfine grade of woolen cloth that was fulled, or shrunk, napped, and shorn so that it was the consistency of felt but with a smooth surface.
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Presently he set apart five damsels, amongst whom was the King s daughter, and sent them to thy father, King Omar bin al-Nu'uman, together with other gifts, such as broadcloth [FN#208] and woollen stuffs and Grecian silks.
Arabian nights. English
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Portmanteaus being then opened and clothes changed, Mr. Goodchild, through having no change of outer garments but broadcloth and velvet, suddenly became a magnificent portent in the Innkeeper's house, a shining frontispiece to the fashions for the month, and a frightful anomaly in the Cumberland village.
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
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The Border region's involvement led to the creation of a new fashion of fancy woolens and tweeds, which were preferred by consumers over broadcloth.
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Cut the diaper cover pieces from the yellow cotton duck or broadcloth according to the pattern guidesheet.
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In like manner, I have heard of a prayer preferred by a somewhat simple New Englander, who was overheard offering his petition behind a clump of bushes in a field: "O Lord, I want a new coat -- good cloth -- none of your coarse, flimsy, slimsy, sleazy kind of stuff, but a good piece of thick, warm, comfortable broadcloth -- such as Bill Hale wears.
Old New England Traits
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With true aristocratic nonchalance, its dark interior resembled, not black broadcloth and leather, but a kind of agora, so littered was every surface with the hairs of her pack of King Charles spaniels.
Michael Henry Adams: "Would You Like Me To Take My Shoes Off?", Dancing, Lunching and Laughing With Mrs. William F. Buckley, Jr.
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About his shoulders was flung a scarlet blanket, consisting of the identical broadcloth from which the British army tunics are made; this he "hunched" with his shoulders from time to time in true Indian fashion.
Legends of Vancouver
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Rolled-hem feet are designed for fine to mediumweight fabrics such as cotton batiste, broadcloth and handkerchief linen.
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The dress was a thick black cotton, and the tunic a deep scarlet broadcloth.
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What sort of religion is in the hearts of these, "(she pursed her lips, and paused for an expressive word, but found none)," these rich folk in their silks and satins and broadcloth, with more than they can use, an 'feedin' their pampered cats and dogs on what would be wealth to the likes o 'me!
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
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Yes, yes," but the judge was unkind enough to refuse, and thereby deprived us of seeing a fellow in broadcloth gored because he thought he could kill a toro.
Six Months in Mexico
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He is entirely in black broadclothor rather, at present, black and brown, for he is bespattered with mud from his heels to the crown of his low hat.
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The men were chiefly business men, with a good deal of the obnoxious "broadcloth" about them, and with well - brushed hats beneath their seats.
Jan of the Windmill
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Outdoors, the Indian Traders Market occupied a circus-type tent where more than 200 merchants sold everything from broadcloth to Zuni fetishes.
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This time Diane was not taken entirely by surprise: she heard the swish of a broadcloth robe.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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And presently Lydia found herself shaking hands with the elder chief, speaker of the council, who spoke English rather well, and with a little dark woman folded within a "broadcloth" and wearing the leggings, moccasins and short dress of her people.
The Moccasin Maker
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She folded her "broadcloth" about her, filled her small carved pipe and sat for many hours smoking silently, silently, silently.
The Moccasin Maker
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London exported more wool broadcloth than Exeter, Southampton, Hull and Bristol added together.
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The tread of Mr. Mullen was heard softly on the staircase, and he entered with his hand outstretched from the starched cuff that showed beneath the sleeve of his black broadcloth coat.
The Miller of Old Church
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Indian woman, in beaded leggings, moccasins, "short skirt," and a blue "broadcloth" folded about her shoulders.
The Moccasin Maker
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Old men and governors wore broadcloth; "full dress" was broadcloth with "doeskin" trousers; and there were seen men of all ages to whom a hat meant only that rigid, tall silk thing known to impudence as a
The Magnificent Ambersons
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clawhammer" blue broadcloth and gold buttons, and to which I shall have occasion to refer again.
Reminiscences of a soldier of the Orphan brigade,
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Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion.
The Dop Doctor
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Described as ‘a model of affability and dignity… remarkable for his fine form and manly beauty,’ he was something of a dandy whose favorite overcoat was made of sable skins lined with scarlet broadcloth.
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As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so they fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, of religion, -- ghosts which they cannot lay; -- and, having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, they are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
English Traits (1856)
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It never raveled when cut, and therefore none of the edges of a broadcloth garment had to be further finished.
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The first great shadow that fell on this united little circle was when George Mansion's mother quietly folded her "broadcloth" about her shoulders for the last time, when the little old tobacco pipe lay unfilled and unlighted, when the finely-beaded moccasins were empty of the dear feet that had wandered so gently, so silently into the Happy Hunting Grounds.
The Moccasin Maker
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Rolled-hem feet are designed for fine to mediumweight fabrics such as cotton batiste, broadcloth and handkerchief linen.
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She had been on the front porch and he had ridden up the long avenue, dressed in grey broadcloth with a wide black cravat setting off his frilled shirt to perfection.
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The best of them all was surely broadcloth, which in the eighteenth century was a superfine grade of woolen cloth that was fulled, or shrunk, napped, and shorn so that it was the consistency of felt but with a smooth surface.
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broadcloth," undertook to drive him from Boston, putting his life in peril, it was our women who made their own persons a bulwark of protection around him.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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They worked at the many machines powered by turning waterwheels in the factory basements, producing sheetings, calicoes, broadcloths, carpets, and rugs for a growing market.
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Between 1620 and 1700 sailings averaged eight ships a year, mainly laden with broadcloth, iron and silver on the outward half of the eighteen-month round trip, and with pepper on the return journey.
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Between 1475 and 1550 existing markets for English broadcloths and other woollens grew rapidly, because the importing regions became more prosperous and had greater purchasing power.
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The details of their costumes were interesting in combination of jeans and buckskin, broadcloth and blanket, stroud and a material evidently made from the strong white sacking in which flour intended for frontier consumption is always packed.
The Forest
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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By 1830 they seem to have other occupations, and Josiah was manufacturing broadcloth.
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Ben had risen before her and was already shaved and resplendently dressed in silver grey broadcloth with matching waistcoat, white shirt and black ribbon tie.
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The tutor breakfasts on coffee made of beans, edulcorated with milk watered to the verge of transparency; his mutton is tough and elastic, up to the moment when it becomes tired out and tasteless; his coal is a sullen, sulphurous anthracite, which rusts into ashes, rather than burns, in the shallow grate; his flimsy broadcloth is too thin for winter and too thick for summer.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Old men and governors wore broadcloth; "full dress" was broadcloth with "doeskin" trousers; and there were seen men of all ages to whom a hat meant only that rigid, tall silk thing known to impudence as a "stove-pipe.
The Magnificent Ambersons; illustrated by Arthur William Brown
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Still, Reece is a poet and a clerk, as much at home now with pinpoint and broadcloth as with the meter and rhyme.
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Had on and took with him, a green broadcloth coat, almost new, a new striped jacket, with sleeves in the fashion of a sailor's, a striped crossbarred printed-cotton vest of an olive colour, buckskin breeches, and striped silk and cotton hose; BUT AS HE IS KNOWN TO HAVE
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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But the arm under the fine broadcloth of his coat was hard as granite.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Not boring white or dark blue broadcloth, but in an explosion of colors and fabrics, from stretch denim to corduroy.
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They worked at the many machines powered by turning waterwheels in the factory basements, producing sheetings, calicoes, broadcloths, carpets, and rugs for a growing market.
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What I found in Yule, Hobson-Jobson, p 861 excuse loss of diacriticals: "Sackcloth", often used in the masochistic sense of "hair shirt", apparently traces back to the Persian "Sakkalat, saklatun", which meant a kind of woollen broadcloth.
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Briton John Russell wrote that Hirschfeld ‘can make us tell tweed from broadcloth, mink from sable, and a clip-on bow tie from one that is made by hand.’