monk's cloth

American  

noun

1. a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.

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monk's cloth British  

noun

1. a heavy cotton fabric of basket weave, used mainly for bedspreads

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Etymology

Origin of monk's cloth

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Instead, moderns hang against natural-colored monk's cloth, and old masters are shown against lustrous shades of velvet.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to Mrs. Breckenridge, you go about dressed in monk's cloth, and a shabby variety at that.

From The Brown Study by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)

His body was encased in a gown of brown monk's cloth!

From The Eye of Wilbur Mook by Hickey, H. B.

Men on foot wore robes of the plain monk's cloth and carried wooden staves.

From The Eye of Wilbur Mook by Hickey, H. B.

He reached out to check one sense against another, feeling the rough monk's cloth and the edging of maroon silk thread.

From Time and Time Again by Piper, H. Beam