Crossword clues for haircloth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Haircloth \Hair"cloth`\ (-kl[o^]th`), n. Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse.
WordNet
n. cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments [syn: hair]
Wikipedia
Haircloth is a stiff, unsupple fabric typically made from horsehair and/or from the wooly hair of a camel. Although horsehair generally refers to the hair of a horse's mane or tail, haircloth itself is sometimes called horsehair. Horse or camel hair woven into haircloth may be fashioned into clothing or upholstery.
In the history of brewing, for drying the malt, haircloth was spread over the kiln floor to keep grain from dropping down into the furnace. Perforated metal or tile (gratings, meshes) were also used, but had a drawback of scorching the grain.
Usage examples of "haircloth".
By the light shining through the dining-room door she saw him on his knees by the haircloth sofa.
Annabel was in the sitting room, shedding tears of humiliation and jealous rage on the haircloth sofa.
The haircloth furniture gave out gleams like black diamonds under the light of the lamp.
He had to concentrate on not spilling any of his tea, the black haircloth divan was rattling so hard with their shock.
Each evening on his knees he flayed his skin with haircloth, he tried to banish the phantom of the regretted wife by calling from its coffin the skeleton which must now be there.
Their baby eyes had opened upon a world of faded portraits and somber haircloth furniture, and their baby hands had eagerly clutched at crystal pendants on brass candlesticks gleaming out of the sacred darkness that enveloped the parlor mantel.
After our summer in the Maine woods I had gone back to find that my new tailor-made coat, which had fitted me exactly, and being stiffened with haircloth kept its shape off and looked as if I myself were hanging to the hook, had caved in on me in several places.
And all this time my aunt and I sat motionless on the haircloth sofa next to the wall.
The man sat down gingerly on one of the slippery haircloth chairs, and proceeded at once to state his business.
The children filed in slowly and deposited themselves with some skill upon the slippery haircloth chairs and sofa.
How tongue-tied he would have been, sitting on the black haircloth sofa in the Wentworth parlour and gazing at the open soapstone stove!
I shall also give you a piece of damask, silks, gold, haircloth and silk for the lining, to make a burse, again to your own design.
Her blue clothed back was straight, her head erect under her tatted haircloth.