broadloom

English

Etymology

broad +‎ loom

Pronunciation

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Noun

broadloom (plural broadlooms)

1. A wide loom.
2. A carpet woven on a wide loom.
   • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

     And away across the Søren Kierkegaard broadloom he lurched, battling shifts in the horizontal which had grown more pronounced since the ship left New York Harbor.

Adjective

broadloom (not comparable)

1. Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.