broady

See also: Broady

English

Noun

broady (uncountable)

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Broadcloth.
    • 1816, George Vaughan (Bow-Street officer), The Whole Four Trials of the Thief Takers (page 26)
      That referred to the circumstance of Dannelly having , on the preceding evening gone to Mr. Poole's cloth shop. He said he had been on the screw, (that is, lifting the latch of a door,) and sneaked out a piece of broady […]

References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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