Haircloth

Quick meaning: Haircloth is a noun meaning A coarse cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse, associated with furniture upholstery, and with uncomfortable clothing worn by people practising religious asceticism.

Meaning

A coarse cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse, associated with furniture upholstery, and with uncomfortable clothing worn by people practising religious asceticism.

Example Sentences

A buttoned hair-cloth lounge spread scrolling arms / Under a crayon portrait on the wall / Done sadly from an old daguerreotype.

And amongst these, there are some so rigidly Religious, that their upper Garment is hair-Cloth, their inner of the finest Linnen; and on the contrary, others wear Linnen without, and hair next their skins:

On that day, the Mufti, and other ecclesiastical servants, cloathed with penitential garments of hair-cloth, with down-cast eyes, beards uncombed, and all in tears, shall repair first to the public places, and afterwards to the mosques,

He looked about the best room of a farm-house that had never adapted itself to the tastes or needs of the city boarder, and was as stiffly repellant in its upholstery, and as severe in its decoration as haircloth chairs and dark brown wall-paper of a trellis-pattern, with drab roses, could make it.

Word Forms

• haircloths

Synonyms for haircloth

Depending on context, synonyms include horsehair, hair.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hair, horsecloth, camelhair, hairshirt, hammercloth, sweat-cloth.

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