in commerce, a thick woollen stuff, quilted, woven on a loom with four treddles, like terges, and other stuffs, that have the whale or quilling. There are some rateens dressed and prepared like cloths; others left simply in the hair; and others where the hair or knap is frizzed. Rateens are chiefly manufactured in France, Holland, and Italy, and are mostly used in linings. The frizee is a sort of coarse rateen, and the drugget is a rateen half linen half woolen.