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broadloom

broadloom noun: a wide loom.

Noun

broadloom (plural broadlooms)

  1. A wide loom.
  2. A carpet woven on a wide loom.
    • And away across the Søren Kierkegaard broadloom he lurched, battling shifts in the horizontal which had grown more pronounced since the ship left New York Harbor.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Adjective

broadloom (not comparable)

  1. Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.

Forms of broadloom

pluralbroadlooms

Origin of broadloom

From broad + loom.

Questions about broadloom

What does broadloom mean?
Broadloom means a wide loom.
What part of speech is broadloom?
Broadloom can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of broadloom?
The plural of broadloom is broadlooms.

Words near broadloom in the dictionary

  1. broadline
  2. broadliner
  3. broadliners
  4. broadloid
  5. broadloids
  6. broadloom
  7. broadloomed
  8. broadlooms
  9. broadly
  10. broadly speaking
  11. Broadmarsh

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