Johnson describes a visit to his friend Ned Drugget, a dealer in cloth remnants.
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Although Drugget has become rich through hard work, he longed for fresh air and relaxation, and has therefore rented a'country lodging' a room in Islington.
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Drugget knows the rank of his customers by their bashfulness; and, when he finds them unwilling to be seen, invites them up stairs, or retires with them to the back window ."
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Formerly, a "'drugget "'was a sort of cheap stuff, very thin and narrow, usually made of wool, or half wool and half silk or linen; it may have been corded but was usually plain.
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It consisted of a blue drugget gown, or body, with ample coats to it; a yellow vest underneath in winter-time; small-clothes of Russia duck; worsted yellow stockings; a leathern girdle; and a little black worsted cap, usually carried in the hand.
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:" Every maid, whose misfortune it was to be taller than her lady, matched her gown at Mr . Drugget's; and many a maiden, who had passed a winter with her aunt in London, dazzled the rusticks, at her return, with cheap finery which Drugget had supplied.
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:" Every maid, whose misfortune it was to be taller than her lady, matched her gown at Mr . Drugget's; and many a maiden, who had passed a winter with her aunt in London, dazzled the rusticks, at her return, with cheap finery which Drugget had supplied.
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On 12 June 1800, for O'Keeffe's benefit, he played at Covent Garden Alibi in the " Lie of the Day ", and Drugget in " Three Weeks after Marriage "; and for another benefit appeared next day as Isaac in " The Duenna ".
Meaning
a rug made of a coarse fabric having a cotton warp and a wool filling
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