Haircloth

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  • noun. A wiry fabric woven especially from horsehair or camelhair, used for upholstering and for stiffening garments.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Stuff or cloth made wholly or partly of hair, especially of the hair of the horse or of the camel.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse.
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  • noun. cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
    • Word Usage
    "“But how can we appear before him, clad as we are in haircloth reeking with sulphur?”"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cloth  fabric  material  textile  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    black oak  blue-upholstered  camelback  cane-bottomed  cane-seated  
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