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DRUGGET

Volume 8 · 134 words · 1842 Edition

in commerce, a stuff sometimes all wool, and sometimes half wool half thread; sometimes corded, but usually plain. Those which have the woof of wool and the warp of thread are called threaded druggets; and those wrought with the shuttle on a loom of four marches are called corded druggets. As to the plain, they are wrought on a loom of two marches, with the shuttle, in the same manner as cloth, camlets, and other like stuffs not corded.

DRUIDÆ, or DRAUOI, in Ancient Geography, a very ancient town, the principal place of the Druides or Druidæ in Gaul, as they are called; now Dreux in the Orleanais. Here, according to Caesar, they met every year in a consecrated grove. The town was also called Durocæs. Long. I. 21. W. Lat. 48. 45. N.