Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A soft fabric of silk and cotton, silk and wool, or all wool, and usually having a ribbed weave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a soft
fabric , made from various combinations ofwool ,silk andcotton , with a lightlyribbed surface
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The groom, best-man and ushers, who included Miss Phillips' brother, Peter, wore black morning suits with spongebag trousers, by the bespoke London tailors, Cad & the Dandy, made with black "barathea" cloth sourced from Huddersfield, in a nod to the Tindalls' Yorkshire roots.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The result is cut from black barathea cloth with a very soft shoulder and small shoulder pads to keep a clean line and give some support.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The groom, best-man and ushers, who included Miss Phillips' brother, Peter, wore black morning suits with spongebag trousers, by the bespoke London tailors, Cad & the Dandy, made with black "barathea" cloth sourced from Huddersfield, in a nod to the Tindalls' Yorkshire roots.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The groom, best-man and ushers, who included Miss Phillips' brother, Peter, wore black morning suits with spongebag trousers, by the bespoke London tailors, Cad & the Dandy, made with black "barathea" cloth sourced from Huddersfield, in a nod to the Tindalls' Yorkshire roots.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Examples include Edwardian and 1920s tailcoats, double breasted overcoats, specialist items like Victorian toppers, classic 1930s double breasted suits and heavy barathea wool evening dress.
Men's Flair 2009
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Without Title teems with words like “atrorubent,” “barathea,” “Pasiphaean,” “haruspex,”” pleach-toned” and “shotten.”
Are You Smart Enough to Understand Geoffrey Hill? « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007
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Without Title teems with words like “atrorubent,” “barathea,” “Pasiphaean,” “haruspex,”” pleach-toned” and “shotten.”
knitandpurl commented on the word barathea
"I wore a suit of barathea I'd ordered special. The only way you can clean that fabric is with gasoline."
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge, p 233
July 10, 2016