A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
A cloth or portion of cloth woven in such a pattern.
A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.
To weave (cloth, etc.) so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.