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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Kerseys

(#)

[Prob. from the town of

Kersey

in Suffolk, Eng.]

A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

Noun.

A species of coarse woolen cloth; a coarse stuff made chiefly in Kent and Devonshire in England.

kersey ‎(plural kerseys)

A type of rough woollen cloth.
- c. mid-1590s, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. 2:
  Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas and honest kersey noes […]