sergedusoy
English
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editEtymology
editFrom French serge de soie.
Noun
editsergedusoy (uncountable)
- (historical) Silk serge.
- 1860, Frederick William Fairholt, Costume in England, page 578:
- SERGEDUSOY (Fr.). A coarse silken stuff, as its name implies. It was used in the last century for coats, etc., for common people, being a degree above cloth.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 240:
- He is wearing a freshly starched cravat and a new sergdusoy jacket, his boots are polished and he carries a clumsily wrapped package under his arms.