Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wiry fabric woven especially from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstering and for stiffening garments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Stuff or cloth made wholly or partly of hair, especially of the hair of the horse or of the camel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Cloth made of themane or tail hairs of ahorse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
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Examples
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“But how can we appear before him, clad as we are in haircloth reeking with sulphur?”
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St. Louis of France: and other pious princes dressed themselves in haircloth and crept to the cross barefoot.
04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004
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The water and foam are drawn off, and the deposit is thrown into a sack of haircloth, which is placed in a tub and water thrown over it till it runs off without any cloudiness.
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The word originally means "haircloth," i.e., the coarse fabric, mostly of goat's hair, out of which tents, sails, carpets, etc. are made ...
Biblical Evidence for Catholicism Dave Armstrong 2010
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Albert wore haircloth next to the skin, and clothed himself with coarse cloth and in wretched garments ....
Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish John 2009
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Different kinds of weaving, sack, haircloth, player rug developed here.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Different kinds of weaving, sack, haircloth, player rug developed here.
Claudiopolis: Legendary History Weaved Into Nature of Mut 2009
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Albert wore haircloth next to the skin, and clothed himself with coarse cloth and in wretched garments ....
St Albert of Trapani John 2009
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Hanging on the mannequin in his studio was a ballet pink dramatic start of a gown constructed out of haircloth, the stiff fabric typically made from horsehair.
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And they who came remained gazing and listening till, at length, first one and then another threw off their bravery, and took his poor cassock and girdle instead; or, if they kept it, it was to put haircloth under it, or to take on them a rule of life, while to the world they looked as before.
St Philip Neri 2009
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