kerseymere
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Etymology edit
Alteration of cassimere.
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Noun edit
kerseymere (countable and uncountable, plural kerseymeres)
- A fine, twilled woollen cloth.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, William Wilson:
- I became aware of the figure of a youth about my own height, and habited in a white kerseymere morning frock, cut in the novel fashion of the one I myself wore at the moment.
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A fine, twilled woollen cloth
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