broadloom

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English

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Etymology

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From broad +‎ loom.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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broadloom (not comparable)

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