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horsehair

horsehair noun: the hair of a horse, especially from the mane and tail, used for upholstery.

Noun

horsehair (countable and uncountable, plural horsehairs)

  1. The hair of a horse, especially from the mane and tail, used for upholstery.
  2. A fabric made from this.
    Synonyms:
    haircloth

horsehair meaning in Kannada

horsehair in Kannada

ಜವಿ, ಜಮೆ, ಜವೆ

Synonyms of horsehair

Forms of horsehair

pluralhorsehairs

Origin of horsehair

From Middle English hors her, horshere, hors-here, hors heer (also hors-hore), equivalent to horse + hair. Compare Old Norse hross-hár (“horsehair”).

Words formed from horsehair

Phrases with horsehair

Questions about horsehair

What does horsehair mean?
Horsehair means the hair of a horse, especially from the mane and tail, used for upholstery.
What is horsehair in Kannada?
Horsehair in Kannada is ಜವಿ, ಜಮೆ, ಜವೆ. See Horsehair meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is horsehair?
Horsehair is a noun.
What is the plural of horsehair?
The plural of horsehair is horsehairs.

Words near horsehair in the dictionary

  1. horsefrights
  2. horsefucker
  3. horsefuckers
  4. Horsegate
  5. horsegram
  6. horsehair
  7. horsehair shirt
  8. horsehair shirts
  9. horsehair worm
  10. horsehair worms
  11. horsehaired

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horsehair (page history and authors); horsehair (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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