[f. Flushing (Du. Vlissingen) a port in Holland.] A kind of rough and thick woollen cloth, so called from the place where it was first manufactured.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple, x. The men were all armed with cutlasses, and wore pea jackets, which are very short great coats made of what they call Flushing.
1879. Unif. Reg., in Navy List, July (1882), 496/2. To be of flushing, with seven buttons … on each side.
attrib. 1832. Darwin, in Life & Lett. (1887), I. 242. If you were to meet me at present I certaintly should be looked at like a wild beast, a great grizzly beard and flushing jacket would disfigure an angel.
1837. Marryat, Snarleyyow; or The Dog Fiend, iii. He was a thick-set, stout man, about five feet four inches high, and, wrapped up in Flushing garments, looked very much like a bear in shape as well as in skin.
