monk's cloth

American  

noun

1. a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.

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monk's cloth British  

noun

1. a heavy cotton fabric of basket weave, used mainly for bedspreads

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Etymology

Origin of monk's cloth

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Instead, moderns hang against natural-colored monk's cloth, and old masters are shown against lustrous shades of velvet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the girls used yarn or bias tape designs on theatrical gauze or monk's cloth, making scarfs, pillows, curtains, davenport covers, or couch covers.

From The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics by Education, Federal Board for Vocational

Sometimes she would dream that she was elsewhere, unfamiliar, ugly places, but then she would awaken to the four long windows with their coarse beige drapes of monk's cloth and the fantasies were forever dispelled.

From Moment of Truth by Wells, Basil

Men on foot wore robes of the plain monk's cloth and carried wooden staves.

From The Eye of Wilbur Mook by Hickey, H. B.

His body was encased in a gown of brown monk's cloth!

From The Eye of Wilbur Mook by Hickey, H. B.