grass cloth
noun
a fabric made from tough vegetable fibers, used for table linens, wall coverings, etc.
grasscloth
-
a variation of
grass cloth.
Example Sentences
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In the entryway alcove, he used tropical-patterned grasscloth wallpaper and 1960s glass pendants to display the couple’s barware and Tiki-Ti memorabilia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2024
The walls are covered in a faux grasscloth material that feels as luxe as it looks.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2023
Legris, an experimental poet from the Canadian Midwest, here evokes the landscape through thickets of profuse language in which, for instance, grasscloth is “Handloomed broad-glumed brome” in “Yards and yards of yellow and yellow.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
At some distance from the house, near a clear running stream, a series of shallow holes had been dug and lined with several layers of rough grasscloth.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
The beautiful fabric called grasscloth, which rivals the best French cambric in softness and fineness of texture, is manufactured from the fiber of this plant.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
