A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

A heavy wool fabric with a very tight, dense weave that is extremely warm and used mainly for coats and outerwear.

A traditional gray (black) hunt coat is made from Melton cloth. Melton cloth is heavy dense wool that repels water and can withstand being dragged through thorns and other obstacles of the hunt field without damage.

a heavily felted, tightly woven fabric with a sheared nap giving it a smooth surface. It is almost always of wool or a wool blend. Used mainly for coats but lighter weights may be used for other apparel.

Melton is a well-fulled or felted overcoating fabric with a smooth, hard finish and close-cropped nap. It is generally available in plain colors. Coarser meltons similar to mackinac cloth, but sometimes made of fine, soft wools to produce smooth coating fabric with finish like broadcloth. Also made with wool blends.

A heavyweight, dense, compacted, and tightly woven wool or wool blend fabric used mainly for coats.

Dense, thick coating fabric with a smooth face, made with a tight plain or twill weave and two sets of softly twisted filling yarns. It is heavily fulled napped to hide all traces of the weave. Named for Melton Mowbray, a town in Leicestershire, England, where the original cloth was used to make hunting outfits.

Melton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.