broadloom

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

broad +‎ loom

Pronunciation[edit]

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Noun[edit]

broadloom (plural broadlooms)

  1. A wide loom.
  2. A carpet woven on a wide loom.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
      And away across the Søren Kierkegaard broadloom he lurched, battling shifts in the horizontal which had grown more pronounced since the ship left New York Harbor.

Adjective[edit]

broadloom (not comparable)

  1. Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.
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