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    haircloth


    1. Veneered and polished mahogany furniture, very much too large and too heavy for the rooms; black haircloth, like the grave clothes of Art, for the covering of everything that could be sat upon; cold, brownish-red curtains, of shiny but not lustrous material; silver candlesticks of monstrous design,—these, and such as these, were the decorative objects which our fathers or our grandfathers admired, or felt that they must admire for want of better, during the unhappy years that I have cited


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    Synonyms for "haircloth"

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    "haircloth" definitions

    cloth woven from horsehair or camelhair; used for upholstery or stiffening in garments