floursackとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From flour +‎ sack.

名詞

floursack (plural floursacks)

1. A sack for flour.

   Hypernyms: sack, bag, poke < packaging

   Synonyms: (broadly synonymous) mealbag, meal-poke

   Coordinate term: feedsack

   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 for making clothing, quilts, or rags, and this tradition continues to some extent today.)

   Hypernyms: cloth, fabric < textile < material

   Coordinate term: feedsack

   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.