NOUN
- cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments
How To Use haircloth In A Sentence
- Albert wore haircloth next to the skin, and clothed himself with coarse cloth and in wretched garments .... Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish
- Less tightly-woven haircloth provided stiffening for the lapels and coat-tails of European dandies.
- And she wore haircloth upon her loins, and fasted all the days of her life, except the sabbaths, and new moons, and the feasts of the house of Israel.
- Manufactures embrace woollen and worsted goods, silks, haircloths, crapes, stockings, gloves, shoes, paper, leather, iron implements, and malt.
- The haircloth goes over the chest area to provide extra shape and firmness.
- Very early on, Christians began using haircloth as an instrument of self-torture by wearing it directly against the skin, which rapidly would be rubbed raw.
- Judge Marcus Aurelious Knowles, in an old-fashioned walnut armchair, his feet upon a walnut and haircloth footstool -- Bayport folk in those days called such stools "crickets" -- a knitted Afghan thrown over his legs and Fair Harbor
