grass cloth

or grasscloth


noun
  1. a fabric made from tough vegetable fibers, used for table linens, wall coverings, etc.

Origin of grass cloth

1
First recorded in 1850–55

Words Nearby grass cloth

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How to use grass cloth in a sentence

  • No chickens, tiny prints, borders, or faux grass cloth are in sight.

  • The upper walls are covered with a blue and silver grass-cloth that strikes an effective color note behind the mahogany furniture.

    Remodeled Farmhouses | Mary H. Northend
  • This he had bound up, whilst swimming, with a strip of his grass-cloth girdle.

  • The little gentleman in the grass-cloth duster and velvet skull-cap was chairman of this committee, and he stated its object.

    A Romance in Transit | Francis Lynde
  • The chief had neat grass-cloth mats spread for us, and taking his seat on one, he begged us to sit down on the others.

    In the Wilds of Africa | W.H.G. Kingston
  • He probably confounded the yucca with the ramie plant of the East, of which grass cloth is made.

    The Beginners of a Nation | Edward Eggleston.

British Dictionary definitions for grass cloth

grass cloth

noun
  1. a cloth made from plant fibres, such as jute or hemp

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