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bark cloth

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noun
  1. any cloth, as tapa, made by soaking and pounding the inner bark of certain trees.
  2. fabric woven to resemble such cloth, used for upholstery, bedcovers, etc.
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Examples from the Web for bark cloth

Historical Examples

  • Yesterday we were met by a party of the same occupation, laden with bark-cloth, which they had just been stripping off the trees.

    The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

    David Livingstone

  • I interrogated him over and over as to the bark-cloth that he said these people wore.

    The Manbos of Mindano

    John M. Garvan

  • Bark-cloth is made in most islands, but a loom for weaving leaf strips is now found only in Santa Cruz.

    Man, Past and Present

    Agustus Henry Keane

  • Another piece of bark-cloth is passed between the legs and tied, in front and behind, to this belt.

    My Friends the Savages

    Giovanni Battista Cerruti

  • Clothing is entirely vegetable, and the Malay sarong is found throughout the east; bark-cloth in the south-east and west.

    Man, Past and Present

    Agustus Henry Keane

British Dictionary definitions for bark cloth

bark cloth

noun
  1. a papery fabric made from the fibrous inner bark of various trees, esp of the moraceous genus Ficus and the leguminous genus Brachystegia
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