A coarse woolen cloth or fabric, sometimes used for carpeting or heavy garments in Middle Eastern contexts.
From Arabic buraat or related terms referring to coarse woolen textiles. The word appears primarily in historical trade documents describing Mediterranean and Middle Eastern textiles.
This obscure textile term survives in English mostly through medieval trade records—evidence that commerce, not culture, is often what plants foreign words in European languages.
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