drugget

[ druhg-it ]

/ ˈdrʌg ɪt /

Also called India drugget. a rug from India of coarse hair with cotton or jute.

a fabric woven wholly or partly of wool, used for clothing.

Origin of drugget

1570–80; < Middle French droguet worthless stuff (textile), equivalent to drogue trash (cf. drug¹) + -et -et

The carpet was of the same date as the curtains, and was thread-bare in many places; and in others was covered with drugget.

Wives and Daughters |Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
He celebrated Mass every Sunday in a tent made of drugget, and covered with a calico fly.

The Book of the Bush |George Dunderdale
To make it all of a piece, to put a soft Turkey carpet instead of the drugget, how pleasant it would be!

Phoebe, Junior |Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
The drugget on the floor only served to hide a part of the still more atrociously patterned carpet.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp |Annie Roe Carr

The rugs looked very handsome, the whole floor at the east end is covered with a red baize or drugget to match the curtains.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson |Charlotte M. Yonge

drugget

/ (ˈdrʌɡɪt) /

a coarse fabric used as a protective floor-covering, etc

C16: from French droguet useless fabric, from drogue trash