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sagathy Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈsægəθɪ|
Also 8 sagathea, saggathe, sagathee, 8–9 segathy, 9 sagathoy, -thay.
[In Fr. sagatis (Boiste 1840; not in Littré or Hatz.-Darm.), Sp. sagatí; of unknown origin.]
A woollen stuff (see quot. 1727–41).
1707Postman 15 Nov. in Ashton Soc. Life Reign Q. Anne (1882) I. 151 Broad Cloaths, Camblet, Druggits and Sagathys. 1709Female Tatler No. 9/1 Any Camlets, Drugets, or Sagathies. 1710Steele Tatler No. 270 ⁋4 Making a Panegyrick on Pieces of Sagathy or Scotch-Plod. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Sagathee,..a slight woollen stuff; being a kind of serge, or ratteen; sometimes mixed with a little silk. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman xxvi. (1841) I. 261 Norwich buys..serges and segathies from Devon and Somersetshire. 1804Monthly Mag. 418 Not more than three persons are engaged in making..serges, duroys, sagothoys and dimities. 1810J. T. in Risdon's Surv. Devon Introd. Remarks 25 Segathies, druggets, coatings, beavers,..found a market in Spain. 1882J. Ashton Soc. Life Reign Q. Anne I. 151 They [sc. clothes] were made of drugget and sagathay, camlet, but the majority of men wore cloth. 1884Besant Dorothy Forster ii, He..went about dressed in grey sagathy and woollen stockings.
b. attrib. or adj. Made of sagathy.
1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4901/4 A brown-colour'd Sagathea Wastcoat and Breeches. 1712Ibid. No. 5058/4 A Led-coloured Saggathe Coat and Wastecoat. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke ii. 14 Beneath my sagathy stuff jacket. |