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horsecloth

[ hawrs-klawth, -kloth ]

noun

, plural horse·cloths [hawrs, -klaw, th, z, -klo, th, z, -klawths, -kloths].
  1. a cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of horsecloth1

First recorded in 1520–30; horse + cloth
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Example Sentences

Betty drew her down beside her under the horsecloth and threw her arms round her; Victoria's body was cold as ice.

I will write something on a card, which you will fasten to one of the pommels, throwing over all this horsecloth.'

Then the man forming the hinder part of the carnival steed sprang quickly forth from beneath the horsecloth.

Beside him, on the horsecloth, lay the fiddle he had made from a shingle.

To tell the truth, I was surprised to meet him in the Horsecloth.

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