haircloth

American  

[hair-klawth, -kloth] / ˈhɛərˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ /

noun

1. cloth of hair from the manes and tails of horses, woven with a cotton warp, and used for interlinings of clothes, upholstery, etc.

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haircloth British  

/ ˈhɛəˌklɒθ /

noun

1. a cloth woven from horsehair, used in upholstery

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Etymology

Origin of haircloth

First recorded in 1490–1500; hair + cloth

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Example Sentences

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haircloth

Baritone Friedrich Schorr wore Jokanaan's haircloth shirt, sang resonantly.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now, Mother's baby," said Mrs. Fisher, seating herself on the wide haircloth sofa, and drawing Phronsie into her lap.

From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney

I wonder what takes the place to a man of a woman’s haircloth trunk?”

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

By little and little, however, I became accustomed to my prison, to my haircloth robe, to my bread, black and hard.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

A row of poles not more than ten feet high supported the roof, which was of brown haircloth, the widths united by a coarse open stitch.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

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