haircloth
IPA: hˈɛrkɫʌθ
noun
- Cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse.
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Examples of "haircloth" in Sentences
- Different kinds of weaving, sack, haircloth, player rug developed here.
- “But how can we appear before him, clad as we are in haircloth reeking with sulphur?”
- Albert wore haircloth next to the skin, and clothed himself with coarse cloth and in wretched garments ....
- St. Louis of France: and other pious princes dressed themselves in haircloth and crept to the cross barefoot.
- The word originally means "haircloth," i.e., the coarse fabric, mostly of goat's hair, out of which tents, sails, carpets, etc. are made ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.