topcloth
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topcloth (plural topcloths)
- A cloth used to cover the top of anything, such as a table or a person's torso.
- 1992, Renny Reynolds, Elaine Louie, The Art of the Party: Design Ideas for Successful Entertaining:
- On one table, for example, we placed a silver topcloth over a rose cotton undercloth.
- 2002, Harold Bloom, Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart, page 79:
- In the market Nwibe's wife hurriedly removes her topcloth to cover her husband: behaviour that would be mad in many a non-African context.
- (nautical) A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.