Burlap

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  • noun. A strong, coarsely woven cloth made of fibers of jute, flax, or hemp and used to make bags, to reinforce linoleum, and in interior decoration.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A coarse heavy material made of jute, flax, hemp, or manila, and used for wrappings and in upholstery: commonly in the plural.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks etc.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. coarse jute fabric
    • Word Usage
    "A sleepy Anna gazes longingly at Ping's empty bed as if thinking "Oh the fun we had, draping each other in burlap and rolling down Madison Avenue!""
    cross-reference
    sackcloth  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bagging  sacking  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    baize  bloodstained  brown paper  calico  cambric  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hessian  
    variant
    burlaps  
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