broady

See also: Broady

English

Noun

broady (uncountable)

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Broadcloth.
   • 1816, George Vaughan (Bow-Street officer), The Whole Four Trials of the Thief Takers (page 26)

     That referred to the circumstance of Dannelly having , on the preceding evening gone to Mr. Poole's cloth shop. He said he had been on the screw, (that is, lifting the latch of a door,) and sneaked out a piece of broady […]

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary