floursack en · NOUN
Etymology
From flour + sack.
Meanings
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A sack for flour.
She brought us her quilting scraps in an old floursack, ready to be used in our crafting project.
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Sackcloth. (In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, floursack cloth was often reused for making clothing, quilts, or rags, and this tradition continues to some extent today.)
Let's be honest: the outfit hardly matters — you could put her in a dress made of floursack and she'd still look fabulous.
Near-synonyms: hessian, burlap
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| floursacks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Hypernyms
fabric · poke · textile · packaging · sack · material · bag · cloth