Definition of "horsecloth" []

• A rug or similar cloth used to cover a horse, or as part of its trappings (noun)

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• "The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street corner, near the market – place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a fly – driver, coming by with his carriage, dropped a horsecloth."
• "After drowning poor Mumu, he had run back to his garret, hurriedly packed a few things together in an old horsecloth, tied it up in a bundle, tossed it on his shoulder, and so was ready."
• "In a damp, dark back-room, on a wretched bedstead covered with a horsecloth, with a rough felt cloak for a pillow, lay Tchertop-hanov."