horsecloth

American  

[hawrs-klawth, -kloth] / ˈhɔrsˌklɔθ, -ˌklɒθ /

noun

• horsecloths
  plural

1. a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• horsecloths
  plural

Etymology

Origin of horsecloth

First recorded in 1520–30; horse + cloth

Example Sentences

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horsecloth horsecloths

He fell from exhaustion, and we made a litter with two poles and a horsecloth to carry him home.

From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker

Then the man forming the hinder part of the carnival steed sprang quickly forth from beneath the horsecloth.

From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai

I will write something on a card, which you will fasten to one of the pommels, throwing over all this horsecloth.'

From Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald

Then he bestowed on his grandfather one half of the sundered horsecloth.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason

Darfour hugged the horsecloth in ecstasy that he should never again be cold at night. 

From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross

In front of him walked Kutuzov's groom leading horses in horsecloths.

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count

Then there was the paddock, a small course some hundred meters in circumference, where a stable help was walking about Valerio II in his horsecloths.

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola

It was heavily laden, covered with horsecloths and strong wolf-skins, and firmly bound with tightly drawn tarred ropes.

From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there.

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count

Behind them along the narrow, sodden, cutup forest road came hussars in threes and fours, and then Cossacks: some in felt cloaks, some in French greatcoats, and some with horsecloths over their heads.

From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count