broadloomn.adj.
/ˈbrɔːdluːm/, U.S. /ˈbrɔdˌlum/, /ˈbrɑdˌlum/ A. n.
1. A wide loom used for weaving broadcloth (broadcloth n. 1) and other wide fabrics.
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1537 in N. W. Alcock People at Home (1993) iv. 31 A brodlom and all sych geres that longyth to the sam.
1578 Inventory in N. Cox & K. Dannehl Dict. Traded Goods & Commodities (2007) Broade loome & ij narrow loomes.
1692 Clothiers Compl. 9 In former days, a Clotheir was reckon'd to be able to keep one broad Loom well imploy'd, with fifty pounds, if he bought his Yarn.
1789 Brief Hist. Acct. Cranbrook 8 The number of broad Looms employed in this manufactory was very great.
1879 Rep. Quartermaster Gen. in Ann. Rep. Secretary of War (46th Congr., 2nd Sess.) I. 293 The higher grades (our flannel is one of them) are made upon the broad looms.
1949 Woollens & Worsteds (U.S. Tariff Comm.: War Charges in Industry Rep. No. 29 49 The average hours of operation per week for automatic broadlooms are now..much longer.
1999 E. S. Hunt & J. M. Murray Hist. Business in Medieval Europe i. 40 The broadloom..involved two weavers sitting side-by-side operating expensive equipment.
2. Chiefly North American. A carpet woven on a broadloom, typically 12 feet (3.65 metres) or more wide.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [noun] > carpet > other
mockado1738
Gobelin carpet1755
Savonnerie1832
1923 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 15 May 3/4 In rugs or complete floor coverings the plain broadlooms have been..universally favored.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 74/2 We finally found a sale of broadlooms by one of New York's oldest furniture and rug dealers.
1963 Which? Mar. 70/2 Many carpets are sold as ‘broadloom’. This is not a type, but a width.
1999 N.Y. Times 4 Nov. f3/3 A manufacturer who can make quilt-patterned area rugs and runners from laser-cut broadloom that is hand-assembled to look like Amish patchworks.
B. adj. (in attributive use).
Of a fabric, textile, etc.: woven on a broadloom. In later use esp. (chiefly North American): designating a carpet woven on a broad loom, typically 12 feet (3.65 metres) or more wide. Cf. broadloomed adj. 1.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > floor-covering > [adjective] > covered with a carpet > type of carpet
ingrain1836
thick-piled1853
Yarkand1880
Tekke1900
washed1911
Transylvanian1915
Herati1931
Lotto1931
Seljuk1931
shag pile1946
tufted1960
1846 S. Bagshaw Hist., Gazetteer & Directory Derbyshire 94 The broad loom fabrics..then produced by hand looms, were chiefly gros-de-naples, plain velvets, [etc.].
1859 Leeds Times 24 Sept. 3/3 The result was a further modification of prices, especially as regarded the weaving of broad-loom carpets.
1922 Tariff Information Surv. on Articles Tariff Act 1913 (U.S. Tariff Comm. I-8) (rev. ed.) 5 The material is woven continuously like any similar broad-loom fabric and then cut to size.
1925 Carpet & Rug World Apr. 50/3 Belgrade Broadloom Carpet.
1983 Old-house Jrnl. Aug. 142/2 Borders which could be sewn to a solid color or patterned broadloom rug.
2012 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 12 To design and make rugs and broadloom carpet for the American market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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