Meanings
plural broadlooms
- 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
- not comparableWoven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of rugs or carpets) woven full width
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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broadloom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/broadloom
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