floursack

English

Etymology

From flour +‎ sack.

Noun

floursack (plural floursacks)

  1. A sack for flour.
    Synonyms: (broadly synonymous) mealbag, meal-poke
    Hypernyms: sack, bag, poke < packaging
    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.
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