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Definition of Sagathy
1. n. A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton, or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.
Definition of Sagathy
1. Noun. a fine twilled worsted fabric which was used formerly for clothes and curtains and is similar to serge ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sagathy
1. a lightweight fabric [n SAGATHIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagathy
Literary usage of Sagathy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of Col. Ethan Allen by Hugh Moore (1834)
"Carlton, who then commanded in Canada. vest and breeches of sagathy, worsted
stockings, ... sagathy ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1889)
"sagathy, a kind of serge, is another fabric that was used for making up the famous
Drap du Barn and D'Oyley suits—the last named after the once celebrated ..."
3. History of Maryland: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day by John Thomas Scharf (1879)
"These, with leather aprons, and sagathy coats, osnaburg shirts, and hair-shag
jackets, were much worn by mechanics, who also wore coarse shoes and worsted ..."
4. Costume of Colonial Times by Alice Morse Earle (1894)
"sagathy. Among " All Sorts of Winter Goods" advertised in the Boston News ...
in 1.752 wearing off " a light cloth- colour'd sagathy coat lined with Lead ..."
5. The Western Antiquary by William Henry Kearley Wright (1883)
"... on a piece of sagathy or Scotch plaid." The late Sir John Bowring, in enumerating
the woollen fabrics of Exeter, mentions the article as ..."
6. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1874)
"... made of bear-skin, buckskin, homespun, denim, wilton, broadcloth, velvet, and
sagathy (a kind of serge); and cloaks of camlet, broadcloth, and kersey. ..."
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