horsehair
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈhɔrsˌhɛr/
:
tela de crin
- And the horsehair mattress, so hard and ungiving.
- horsehair mattress
- horsehair chair
- horsehair sofa
Examples
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Horsehair came into fashion when the ditto shirts went out.
Fiction book (1991) -
The antique chair was beautifully upholstered in horsehair, giving it a luxurious feel.
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Not like the one at home, tight with horsehair and springs.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's probably the stiffest available horsehair canvas.
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A horsehair chair.
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Wouldn't need any of them if they didn't stuff this furniture with horsehair.
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I flopped on the horsehair sofa by the fire, a good toasty fire.
Fiction book (1994) -
After lunch, they sat on a hard horsehair sofa in the lounge, looking through outdated magazines they knew by heart.
Fiction book (1996) -
The old Indian sits on a rickety old bed with a horsehair mattress, sheepskins, and an Indian blanket.
Fiction book (1994) -
On long winter evenings when the snow sighed outside the windows, Seth sat curled on the horsehair sofa close to a kerosene lamp and used the fat family Bible for a desk.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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9.9
Cloth woven from coarse horse or camel fur used inside furniture and in some clothes
A stiff, coarse cloth made from horse or camel hair used to give shape to furniture and garments
How Stiff
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horsehair comes from the two simple words horse and hair, meaning 'horse' and 'hair'. Craftspeople wove long, stiff horse hairs into a rough fabric for furniture and some clothes, so horsehair can also mean the cloth made from those hairs.