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. ❋ Annie Lash Jester (N/A)

_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. ❋ Annie Lash Jester (N/A)

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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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. ❋ 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? ❋ 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 ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)