hopsack
Britishnoun
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a roughly woven fabric of wool, cotton, etc, used for clothing
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Also called: hopsacking. a coarse fabric used for bags, etc, made generally of hemp or jute
Example Sentences
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We saw a lot of simple cotton dresses for spring, and this morning, Roland Mouret opened his fall show with a chic olive wool hopsack blouson and a slim black skirt slit in the front.
From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2011
Loose-weave hopsack and tweed suits no longer sag in the seat and buckle at the knee, keep their shape as well as an all-Dacron suit.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was just as exquisite in its way, an iron-grey hopsack, with trousers for which I had had to peel three times, but it did not speak quite so plainly of functions and high assemblages.
From The Debit Account by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
Weave B is known as the hopsack, and probably owes its name to being originally used for the making of bags for hops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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