broadloom
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broadloom (plural broadlooms)
- A wide loom.
- 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.
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broadloom (not comparable)
- Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.