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Перевод: broadcloth
[существительное] тонкое черное сукно; шелковая ткань в рубчик
Тезаурус:
- Earlier in the century two broadcloth weavers in 1757 testified that fourteen, fifteen or sixteen hours was the input required to make good wages.
- When, through a second marriage, Hopkins became a kinsman of one Vickares, a wool-draper, Hopkins took over the broadcloth trade, and Stratford concentrated on the flax trade, in partnership with three others, Ralph, his brother, Thomas Lane, married to a third daughter of Robinson, and Humphrey Thornbury.
- The heavy, dark-blue broadcloth coat would not go into the suitcase.
- White cutaway-collar broadcloth shirt (Ben Sherman made these) Club, regimental, etc. striped tie with stick-pin; grey flannel parallels with normal size turnups, black toe-capped Oxfords.
- In the end it was overtaken by the advent of the "New Draperies", but the downward trend had set in well before the establishment of these in East Anglia; indeed, in the event they came to replace the contracting broadcloth manufacture which, even as early as 1523, had shown signs of instability: it was symptomatic of recession that no less than 35 per cent of Spring's liquid assets had to be written off as irrecoverable, and the winding up of his affairs cannot but have dealt its prosperity a mortal blow.
- Stratford traded first in Cheshire cheese and woollen hose, sent from the country by Robinson's chapmen, but then switched to rough flax, linen yarn, wheat, and rye, bought from Eastland (Baltic) merchants in exchange for English broadcloth.
- And so it was as the candidate that he spoke to them, his accent so neutral by now that he could have come from anywhere and everywhere, his green broadcloth jacket still shabby but worn as jauntily as if it had been lined with ermine, his lean, dark face handsome enough to please the women and hard enough to reassure the men.
- In Berkshire the Newbury clothiers were the richest men, although it looks as if the decline of the local broadcloth and kerseys had already begun, leaving a trail of poverty.
- . Spanish wool is manufactured at this works and prepared for the weaver of broadcloth and Kerseymere".
- At the time Woodchester Mill was particularly well known for the production of Superfine Saxony Broadcloth.
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