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countable and uncountable, plural broadcloths
A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend. examples
(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. quotations
The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.
1942, Emily Carr, “The Bishop and the Canary”, in The Book of Small