longcloth

Her grandmother had seen to everything else, and was devoted to a durable material known as longcloth, which one buys by the bolt and uses forever.

The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

And they fell to bringing him longcloth and saying to him,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I was buying the longcloth; and — in that glass — I saw one of the shopmen point to my shoulder and whisper to another.

The Moonstone 2003

A pile of stinking sheep-skins, a few rolls of questionable longcloth, two packets of candles, some sheep-shears, gin-traps, and a keg of tar.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913

But the English shirt-maker proceeds upon different lines; he always seems afraid of wasting a few inches of longcloth, and thus if the ordinary ready-made shirt on sale at shops of the average class is dressy-looking enough, it is also often supremely uncomfortable to those who like their ease.

With Zola in England Vizetelly, Ernest A 1899

"Here," said the shopwoman, "is the gown, longcloth, one-and-sixpence; here is the flannel, one-and-sixpence; and here is the little shirt, sixpence."

Esther Waters 1892

They took out the flannel, and the longcloth and things, and the roll of embroidery that I was going to trim them with, and rolled inside that, if you'll believe me, there was the necklace like a shining snake coiled up.

In Homespun 1891

'An honest hosier and draper, serge and longcloth warehouseman' -- he groaned from rib to rib -- 'at the sign of the Gartered Kitten in the loyal town of Dulverton.

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

There was a glass in front of me, at the counter where I was buying the longcloth; and -- in that glass -- I saw one of the shopmen point to my shoulder and whisper to another.

The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1856

Gaudy shawls cover white cotton jackets; and skirts of bright, showy longcloth suggest the parrot or the cockatoo.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855