lockram

In the outer room, apparently a storeroom, there was, in accordance with the practice of planters to keep a supply of materials on hand, a quantity of piece-goods in dowlas, lockram, dimity, coarse Holland, fine Holland and tufted Holland, osnaburg and kersey, and seventeen ells (45 inches in English measure and 27 inches in Dutch measure) of sheeting, as well as yarn stockings.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

_Linsey_, a coarse cloth, was made of linen and wool, or occasionally of cotton and wool; _kersey_, a knit woolen cloth, usually coarse and ribbed, manufactured in England as early as the thirteenth century, was especially for hose; _lockram_ was a sort of a coarse linen or hempen cloth, and _penniston_, a coarse woolen frieze.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

My coat is of fine cloth, and my shirt of holland; your shirt is lockram, and you wear no coat at all: _ergo_, saith a world of pretty fellows, we are beings of separate planets.

Audrey Mary Johnston 1903

Bales of red cotton, blue linen, flowered Kidderminster, scarlet serge, gold and silver drugget, all sorts of woven stuffs from lockram to brocade, made bright the shelves.

Audrey Mary Johnston 1903

The linen tablecloth was either of holland, huckaback, dowlas, osnaburg, or lockram -- all heavy and comparatively coarse materials -- or of fine damask, just as to-day; some of the handsome board-cloths were even trimmed with lace.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

They be not three what-lack-ye's, as what do ye lack? fine lockram, [282] fine canvas, or fine Holland cloth, or what lack ye? fine ballads, fine sonnets, or what lack ye?

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

There goes 'the seld shown flamen, _puffing_ his way to _win a vulgar station_,' here is a 'veiled dame' who lets us see that 'war of white and damask in her nicely gawded cheeks,' a moment; -- look at that 'kitchen malkin,' peering over the wall there with 'her richest lockram' 'pinned on her reechy neck,' eyeing the hero as he passes; and look at this poor baby here, this Elizabethan baby, saved, conserved alive, crying himself

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835