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

Example Sentences

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haircloth

Baritone Friedrich Schorr wore Jokanaan's haircloth shirt, sang resonantly.

From Time Magazine Archive

She longed to pull down the sombre drawing-room curtains and pitch the stiff-backed, haircloth chairs out of the window; but her father, though a millionaire, would brook no change.

From With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor

"Now, Mother's baby," said Mrs. Fisher, seating herself on the wide haircloth sofa, and drawing Phronsie into her lap.

From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney

She opened a closet, and from the very bottom of a small haircloth trunk, lifted and shook out from its many tissue wrappings a faded gown of rose-colored silk, with pointed bodice and old-fashioned puff-sleeves.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives

There were haircloth sofas, and a big fireplace, and plenty of rocking chairs, and lounges covered with chintz of every pattern, and softened with cushions of every hue.

From The Other Fellow by Francis Hopkinson Smith