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Sailcloth

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sailcloth
1. any of various fabrics from which sails are made
2. a lighter cloth used for clothing, etc.
sailcloth [′sāl‚klȯth]
(textiles)
A generic term for heavy, durable fabrics with a strong canvas weave made of cotton, linen, jute, polyester, or nylon; used for sails as well as for other applications.
Sailcloth 

a heavy, closely woven linen or partly linen fabric, plainwoven from thick yarn. It was originally used for sails; hence the name. Sailcloth is used in unprocessed form or treated for commercial applications such as use in sails, tarpaulins, and the uppers of footwear. It is also used for work clothes and special-purpose clothes.
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Some were living in tents of sailcloth, some in shanties rudely constructed of boards, some in huts of stone or turf with curious windows and doors of basket-work.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
She mounted again beside her lover, with a mute obedience characteristic of impassioned natures at times, and when they had wrapped themselves up over head and ears in the sailcloth again, they plunged back into the now thick night.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Seven feet higher he constructed a similar, though lighter platform to serve as roof, and from the sides of this he suspended the balance of his sailcloth for walls.
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