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

A few minutes later Josè stood on the river bank beside his little haircloth trunk and traveling bag, sadly watching the steamer draw away and resume her course up-stream.

From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

She groped her way to an old haircloth armchair in her sitting room, and put on her spectacles.

From Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

The haircloth of St. Francis corresponds in fact to the club of Hercules, and serves the same purpose.

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

Under her most splendid garments she always wore a haircloth cilicium next her flesh.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s

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