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† ˈbridgewater Obs. A woollen cloth named after the place of its original manufacture.
1552–3Acts 5 & 6 Edw. VI, All and euery broad cloth and clothes, called Taunton clothes, Bridgewaters and other clothes. 1607Act 4 Jas. I, ii, Tauntons, Bridgewaters, and Dunsters made in the Westerne parts of Somersetshire. |