word of the day: drugget
context: “Every inch of bulstrading (Greek-key pattern) was thick with diamonds. So were the stair rods holding down the cloth-of-gold carpet. — Miss Bianca set food upon it as negligently, and ran up it as lightly, as if it had been mere drugget.”
definition (Merriam-Webster): a coarse durable cloth used chiefly as a floor covering
The staircase is in the palace of a Grand Duchess. She’s a stone cold villain. And, not coincidentally, everything in her Diamond Palace is cold, too. Ever hear of warm and fuzzy diamonds? But our mouse hero, Miss Bianca, is confident she can free the little girl the evil Duchess has enslaved.
source:
Miss Bianca
by Margery Sharp
1962. Little, Brown, & Co., Boston MA
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