How To Use hopsack In A Sentence
- 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. Dragonfly in Amber
- Tauz's hopsack blazer (£980); a look from Thom Browne's spring/summer 2011 collection; the Lionel Henderson black seer suit (£650) from Aquascutum's London collection. Menswear's Formal Acceptance
- 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. You Live Once
- John Bull, that his coin may not corrode for want of circulation; if ever this fellow enters my house again, with his deer-stealing Stratford vagabond under his arm, tie them both up in a hopsack, and throw them into the Thames! The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
- The generality of tweeds, serges, hopsacks and crepons are 44 inches wide, therefore we will describe the making up of the skirt in material of that width.
- All the hopsacks I have seen feel too heavy for summer.
- Among the fabrics mentioned by Angelo Uslenghi in his Spring / Summer 2005 forecast developed for Moda In are satins, sateens, crêpes, piqués, seersuckers, crepons, voiles, georgettes, honeycombs, hopsacks, slubbed linens, jacquards and mesh.
- If you are in the boating industry, then you already know there is one, and only one, acceptable uniform: Topsiders; no socks; chinos; white, short-sleeve, button-down Oxford shirt, blue hopsack blazer, optional "rep" tie. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
- I cut the collar off a pink hopsack suit, shortened the sleeves, bought three huge buttons and sewed them on the jacket. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- Most papers are available in up to five colourways each and all are matched by co-ordinating hopsacks in plain colours.
