Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Cloth made of wool matted together without weaving; felt.

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Examples

  • Each man has his dwelling under a tree, in winter covering the tree all round with close white felt-cloth, and in summer without it.

    The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

  • For in the woman he had forgotten the rustler, and this black strip of felt-cloth established the identity of

    Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905

  • Each man has his dwelling under a tree, in winter covering the tree all round with close white felt-cloth, and in summer without it.

    The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 480? BC-420? BC Herodotus 1883

  • The first Antique Cheruscan who, of felt-cloth or bear's-hide, with bone or metal needle, set about making himself a coat, before Tailors had yet awakened out of Nothing, -- did not he make it even so?

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • The first Antique Cheruscan who, of felt-cloth or bear's-hide, with bone or metal needle, set about making himself a coat, before Tailors had yet awakened out of

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

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