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hopsacking

hopsacking \hopsacking\ n. a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen, used in clothing.

Syn: hopsack.

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hopsacking

n. a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing [syn: hopsack]

Usage examples of "hopsacking".

And the new grey wool and Dacron slacks, and take along the white hopsacking jacket should we decide to eat out at one of those places at the lake.

There was always linsey woolsey, or worse, hopsacking, but she needed something appropriate for tea or, perhaps, a quiet dinner at the Billingsworth estate.

Three of the ladies made it through the first ward, with its cases of scrofula, scabies, eczema, defluxions, and stinking pyemia, before deciding that their charitable inclinations could be entirely satisfied by a donation to L'Hôpital, and fleeing back to the dispensary to shed the rough hopsacking gowns with which we had been furnished.