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haircloth|ˈhɛəklɒθ|
[Cf. haire.]
1. Cloth or fabric made of hair, used for various purposes, as for tents, towels, shirts of penitents and ascetics; also in drying malt, hops, or the like.
1500Nottingham Rec. III. 452 Every peece of hayrcloth. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Matt. xi. 21 They had done penance in hearecloth and ashes long agoe. 1613Sherley Trav. Persia 19 Tents of blacke haire-cloth. 1764Harmer Observ. ii. §17. 75 The same sort of hair-cloth of which our coal-sacks are made. 1850A. Jameson Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863) 220 Chastening herself with haircloth, which she wore under her royal apparel.
attrib.1632Lithgow Trav. v. 229 [We] pitched our haire-cloth Tents round about Jacobs Well. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxii. (1878) 408, I sat down on a haircloth couch. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 247/1 Milk..poured through a haircloth sieve.
2. An article (as a shirt, towel, etc.) made of this fabric.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xi. 68 Woulde haue doen penaunce in heerclothes and ashes. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 10 b, It serveth to convey downe the Malt, after it is watred, unto the hearecloth. 1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 57 The Master of the Bath rubb'd me all over with a hair-cloth. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Hair-Cloths, in military affairs..are used for covering the powder in waggons, or upon batteries. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 176 The ascetic, Jonadab..in his hair-cloth. |