Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A loosely woven, coarse fabric of cotton or wool used in clothing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A coarse bagging made of a combination of hemp and jute.
- n. A wool dress-fabric of coarse texture.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen, used in clothing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing
Etymologies
- From its being used for bags by hop growers. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“After we bought the bargain sofa, Mark commissioned the master craftsmen/upholsterers at Guido De Angelis Inc. to build another sofa to match it, and had both covered top-to-toe in a black wool hopsacking.”
“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.”
“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.”
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