osnaburg

[ oz-nuh-burg ]

noun

1. a heavy, coarse cotton in a plain weave, for grain sacks and sportswear and also finished into cretonne.

osnaburg

/ ˈɒznəˌbɜːɡ /

noun

1. a coarse plain-woven cotton used for sacks, furnishings, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of osnaburg¹

1535–45; irregular after Osnabrück ( def ), known for its linen

Word History and Origins

Origin of osnaburg¹

C16: corruption of Osnabrück , where it was originally made

Example Sentences

According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. the deputy sustained serious injuries in the crash on Route 44 in Osnaburg Township.

From Washington Times

Often overlooked, in fact, is the clothing worn by the four million American slaves created from what was called “plantation cloth,” “slave cloth” or “negro cloth”: coarse, thick bolts of linsey-woolsey, kersey and osnaburg.

From New York Times

Osnaburg, oz′na-burg, n. a coarse kind of linen, originally brought from Osnaburg in Germany.

From Project Gutenberg

On 27 Feb. 1764, Prince Frederick, afterwards Duke of York and Albany, was elected to the bishopric of Osnaburg which he retained till 1803, when the bishopric was secularised and incorporated with Hanover.

From Project Gutenberg

It was just about the opening of the second quarter of the eighteenth century—when Fielding was fresh from Eton, fifteen years before Pamela had appeared and while George II. was in waiting for the slipping off of Father George at Osnaburg—that a stout Scotch poet found his way to London to try a new style of verses with the public which was still worshipping at the shrine of Mr. Pope.

From Project Gutenberg