Kersey
Usage examples for Kersey:
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Two years later Kersey threw the materials into another form and published it in an octavo, as Kersey's 'Dictionarium Anglo- Britannicum, or a General English Dictionary, ' of which three editions appeared before 1721. In this work there are included a considerable number of obsolete words, chiefly from Spenser and his contemporaries, marked O., and in some cases erroneously explained.
"The evolution of English lexicography", James Augustus Henry Murray. -
His dress is a jacket, made of the coarsest red kersey and a pair of trowsers; but on Sundays, he is drest in nankeen.
"An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island", John Hunter. -
The town was famous for its kersey cloths, sometimes called " Dunsters," which were sold under the shade of this structure.
"Vanishing England", P. H. Ditchfield. -
The little pest, the moth, had made its appearance in Virginia, for in goods accounted for, are four pairs of moth- eaten hose and a piece of moth- eaten kersey
"Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17", Annie Lash Jester.