poodle cloth

noun

A type of shaggy (originally wool) cloth, resembling the fur of a poodle.

First used 19th c.
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Meanings

nounpoodle cloth (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableA type of shaggy (originally wool) cloth, resembling the fur of a poodle.First known use 19th c.

    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, published 2013, page 218
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