monk's cloth

noun

1. a heavy cotton fabric in a basket weave, used for curtains, bedspreads, etc.

monk's cloth

noun

1. a heavy cotton fabric of basket weave, used mainly for bedspreads

Word History and Origins

Origin of monk's cloth¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Word History and Origins

Origin of monk's cloth¹

C19: so called because a similar material was used for making monks' habits

Example Sentences

Some of the girls used yarn or bias tape designs on theatrical gauze or monk's cloth, making scarfs, pillows, curtains, davenport covers, or couch covers.

From Project Gutenberg

Instead, moderns hang against natural-colored monk's cloth, and old masters are shown against lustrous shades of velvet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men on foot wore robes of the plain monk's cloth and carried wooden staves.

From Project Gutenberg

His body was encased in a gown of brown monk's cloth!

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Sometimes she would dream that she was elsewhere, unfamiliar, ugly places, but then she would awaken to the four long windows with their coarse beige drapes of monk's cloth and the fantasies were forever dispelled.

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