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What does broadcloth mean?

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Noun
  1. A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
  2. (historical) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. (reference: broadcloth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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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.
She looked up from the blue broadcloth she had spotted out of the corner of her eye.
Cut the diaper cover pieces from the yellow cotton duck or broadcloth according to the pattern guidesheet.
Still, Reece is a poet and a clerk, as much at home now with pinpoint and broadcloth as with the meter and rhyme.
This sturdy cotton broadcloth suit is fully lined with a moisture barrier keeping the pilot fresh and comfortable in warmer climates.
The dress was a thick black cotton, and the tunic a deep scarlet broadcloth.

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