haircloths

Noun

haircloth (countable and uncountable, plural haircloths)

1. A coarse cloth made of the mane or tail hairs of a horse, associated with furniture upholstery, and with uncomfortable clothing worn by people practising religious asceticism.
   • And amongst these, there are some so rigidly Religious, that their upper Garment is hair-Cloth, their inner of the finest Linnen; and on the contrary, others wear Linnen without, and hair next their skins:1668, Desiderius Erasmus, translated by John Wilson, The Praise of Folly, page 108

   Synonyms:

   horsehair