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floursack

noun

Etymology

From flour + sack.

  1. derived from sacco
  2. derived from sac
  3. derived from σάκκος — “bag of coarse cloth”
  4. derived from saccus — “large bag”
  5. inherited from *sakkuz✻ — “sack”
  6. inherited from *sakku✻
  7. inherited from sacc — “sack, bag”
  8. inherited from sak
  9. formed as floursack — “flour + sack”

Definitions

  1. A sack for flour.

    • She brought us her quilting scraps in an old floursack, ready to be used in our crafting project.

  2. Sackcloth. (In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, floursack cloth was often reused…

    Sackcloth. (In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, floursack cloth was often reused for making clothing, quilts, or rags, and this tradition continues to some extent today.)

    • Near-synonyms: hessian, burlap
    • Let's be honest: the outfit hardly matters — you could put her in a dress made of floursack and she'd still look fabulous.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA