floursack

plural floursacks

1. A sack for flour.

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

   Synonyms: mealbag, meal-poke

2. 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

   1 more example

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

   Synonyms: hessian, burlap