poodle cloth
English
Noun
- (now rare) A type of shaggy (originally wool) cloth, resembling the fur of a poodle. [from 19th c.]
- 1977, Angela Carter, ‘The Paris of the North’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 218:
- I managed to purchase a square-cut early sixties coat in a fabric we used to call poodle cloth for the price of a kebab and chips on The Smoke.
- 1977, Angela Carter, ‘The Paris of the North’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 218:
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