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Pilot cloth   /pˈaɪlət klɔθ/   Listen
Pilot cloth

noun
1.
A thick blue cloth used to make overcoats and coats for sailors etc.






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"Pilot cloth" Quotes from Famous Books



... you take my advice, you'll go into my room, and there, hanging against the wall, you'll find my winter shooting jacket, I had it made last year when I went up to Maine, of pilot cloth, lined throughout with flannel. It will fit you just as well as your own, for we're pretty much of a size. Frank, there, will wear his old monkey jacket, the skirts of which he razeed last winter for the very ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)

... solely of fishermen, their families, and the shopkeepers who supply their necessities. The men who stand in groups in the street and on the wharf are all clad in blue guernseys or duck smocks and trousers of pilot cloth or canvas. Broad-built sturdy men are they, for in point of physique there are few fishermen round the coast who can compare with those ...
— A Chapter of Adventures • G. A. Henty

... back against the bulkhead with his hands buried deeply in Tom's borrowed pockets. He felt much more at home in pilot cloth ...
— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman



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