horsecloth
Americannoun
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horsecloths
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Origin of horsecloth
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She slipped into bed and drew the horsecloth over her ears.
From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George
Going towards the stable, he met the white-legged chestnut, Mahotin's Gladiator, being led to the race-course in a blue forage horsecloth, with what looked like huge ears edged with blue.
From Anna Karenina by Constance Garnett
When the cold nipped too close into her she would get up and wrap herself in the horsecloth and read with savage application, rushing to the core of the thought.
From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George
So he, seeing that he might not rid himself of his father save by the granting of a gift, and being desirous above all that he should part, bade his son to fetch this horsecloth.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
He fell from exhaustion, and we made a litter with two poles and a horsecloth to carry him home.
From The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon by Sir Samuel White Baker
We saw in the shops many articles, such as horsecloths, belts, and garters, woven by the Indian women.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
He said he would not have been taken, it was not his fault but the corporal's who had sent him to seize some horsecloths, though he had told him the Russians were there.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
It was heavily laden, covered with horsecloths and strong wolf-skins, and firmly bound with tightly drawn tarred ropes.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Then there was the paddock, a small course some hundred meters in circumference, where a stable help was walking about Valerio II in his horsecloths.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
Behind them along the narrow, sodden, cutup forest road came hussars in threes and fours, and then Cossacks: some in felt cloaks, some in French greatcoats, and some with horsecloths over their heads.
From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Count
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