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Haircloth definition

hârklôth, -klŏth
A wiry fabric woven especially from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstering and for stiffening garments.
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Cloth woven from horsehair, camel's hair, etc., now used mainly for covering furniture.
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Cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse.
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Noun

Singular:
haircloth
Plural:
haircloths

Haircloth Sentence Examples

  • As the prisoners, clad in penitential haircloth, were led across the bridge, wanton boys thrust sharp sticks between the planks to wound their feet.

  • Other industries are the making of chemicals, ironware, soda and haircloth.

  • Though she deprecated excess of ascetic severity in others, she scourged herself habitually, and wore a peculiarly painful haircloth.

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