broadcloth

verka A dense, plain woven cloth, usually made of cotton or a cotton blend.
puhekieltä A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men’s garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide. (reference: (R:Webster 191))
1942, (w), (w), "The Bishop and the Canary," http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400201.txt

The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth.