broadcloth

Etymology

broad +‎ cloth

Noun

broadcloth (countable and uncountable, plural broadcloths)

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)
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "The Bishop and the Canary,"

     The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.