ProbableNamed for a product of the place
drap de Berry
noun · first attested 17th century
A retired English word for cloth, borrowed whole from a French province.
An obsolete English name for a woolen broadcloth woven in the Berry region of central France.
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- Relationship
- Named for a product of the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 17th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Berry
- In English
drap de Berry
Weavers at Châteauroux, Issoudun, and Romorantin turned local fleece into a serviceable cloth that English-speaking merchants bought and inventoried under its French name. Berry ceased to be an administrative province at the Revolution, and the cloth name faded with the trade that carried it.
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