Meaning of Serge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of worsted cloth.
   countable, uncountable
2. A large wax candle used in some church ceremonies.
3. A garment made of this fabric.
   countable, metonymically, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Lucy, who had only seen her in either the large loose wrapping dress of serge, or in the quaint simplicity of the Puritanic garb, then so general in England, could not restrain an exclamation of admiration as she returned to their chamber.”

“What I noticed most strongly was his smell, of hair oil and serge and cigarette smoke, and something else, something intimate and sour and wholly, shockingly other.”

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