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
I can divine the original through this veil, as I can see the movements of a spirited horse by those of his coarse grasscloth muffler.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
