Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A strong, coarsely woven cloth made of fibers of jute, flax, or hemp and used to make bags, to reinforce linoleum, and in interior decoration.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coarse heavy material made of jute, flax, hemp, or manila, and used for wrappings and in upholstery: commonly in the plural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A very strong, coarse
cloth , made fromjute ,flax , orhemp , and used to makesacks etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun coarse jute fabric
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Then I wrap it in burlap for a bit of shelter and concealment.
what kind of stand do you use for hunting deer and what do you like about it and dislike about it. 2009
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A sleepy Anna gazes longingly at Ping's empty bed as if thinking "Oh the fun we had, draping each other in burlap and rolling down Madison Avenue!"
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 4 Recap: Cooter Couture Una LaMarche 2010
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Then I wrap it in burlap for a bit of shelter and concealment.
what kind of stand do you use for hunting deer and what do you like about it and dislike about it. 2009
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A hideous figure clothed in burlap and with an exploded head reclined in the seat.
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Bayou La Batre, Ala., to Galveston, Tex., he became known as the burlap-sack guy.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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I have several that haven’t bloomed well, despite being wrapped in burlap over winter.
An experiment in cold protection « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009
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Polish artist Piotr Uklański, for example, is showing a 40-foot-wide, untitled burlap curtain with patches of colorful fabric that evoke American folk art.
The Whitney Biennial Lightens Up Kelly Crow 2010
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Polish artist Piotr Uklański, for example, is showing a 40-foot-wide, untitled burlap curtain with patches of colorful fabric that evoke American folk art.
The Whitney Biennial Lightens Up Kelly Crow 2010
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I did a paper on torture in college and I can never forget the worst ones: the glass tube shoved into the penis and then broken while the tortured person is forced to drink glass after glass of water, the legs encased in a vise and put in a burlap sack and then pounded with hammers until the burlap is the only thing holding them together.
Land of the Blind Walter, Jess, 1969- 2003
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Kristen also lacked style -- Simon, commenting on her dress which could best be described as a burlap sack that fell into a vat of pink Easter egg dye, said it "looked like your Mum styled you."
unknown title 2009
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