drugget
(ˈdrʌgɪt)
Also 6 Sc. droggitt, drogatt, 8–9 druggit.
[a. F. droguet (1555 in Hatz.-Darm.), thence, prob., Sp. droguete, It. droghetto, Ger. droguett. Ulterior origin unknown.
Littré suggests derivation from drogue drug as ‘a stuff of little value’; some English writers have assumed a derivation from Drogheda in Ireland, but this is mere wanton conjecture, without any historical basis.]
1. a. Formerly, a kind of stuff, all of wool, or mixed of wool and silk or wool and linen, used for wearing apparel. b. Now, a coarse woollen stuff used for floor-coverings, table-cloths, etc.
| 1580 Lady Errol Let. in Mrs. Pratt Buchan (1858) App. 322 Ane pair of drogatt courtingis. Ibid. 323 Ane pair of courtingis of b[l]ew & quhytt droggitt. 1672 Eachard Observ. Answ. Cont. Clergy, One that is in canonical black may..see as far into a millstone, as he that wears a light drugget. 1682 Lond. Gaz. No. 1762/4 Several Pieces of Rich Silk Druggets, Serge-Wale, Thred Druggets. 1714 Fr. Bk. of Rates 378 Druggets of Wool, and Thread and Wool. 1721 Swift Ep. to Play Wks. 1755 III. ii. 182 In drugget drest, of thirteen pence a yard, See Philip's son. 1727–51 Chambers Cycl., Drugget..a sort of stuff, very thin, and narrow, usually all wool, and sometimes half wool and half silk..woven on a worsted chain. 1745 Gentl. Mag. 99/1, I remember plain John Dryden..in one uniform cloathing of Norwich drugget. 1832 Lytton Eugene A. iii. iv, He wore a spencer of a light brown drugget. 1877 M. M. Grant Sun-Maid i, A wide corridor, carpeted with warm crimson drugget. 1882 Beck Draper's Dict. s.v., Twilled druggets were..known in trade as corded druggets, but when of linen warp and woollen weft, as threaded druggets. |
2. † a. A garment or suit of drugget. b. A carpet or floorcloth of drugget.
| 1713 Steele Guardian No. 147 ¶1 He was married in a plain drugget. 1859 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 10 Putting down the drugget in the drawing-room. 1870 M. Bridgman Ro. Lynne xiii, The carpets..remained hidden from sight by the cleanest of druggets. |
3. attrib. Made of drugget.
| 1580 [see 1]. 1675 Lond. Gaz. No. 980/4 A Drugget Sute lined with green. 1836 Sir G. Head Home Tour 160 Dressed in easy loose-fitting costume, viz. a drugget pea-jacket and wide trowsers. 1873 Black Pr. Thule xxv. 427 A young lady, dressed in a drugget petticoat. |
4. Comb., as drugget-maker.
| 1709 Lond. Gaz. No. 4594/4 Thomas Twaite, late a Drugget maker. |
Hence ˈdruggeted ppl. a., covered or carpeted with drugget; ˈdruggeting = sense 1 b.
| 1890 Sale-Catal. (Derby), Carpet..Red druggeting. 1893 Cornh. Mag. Jan. 29 The drawing-room..is bare of furniture, and druggeted for Edith's skirt-dancing party. |