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Meanings of hessian in English

Russian
рогожа
Portuguese
serrapilheira
Spanish
arpillera
Catalan
arpillera
Wikidata

Woven fabric from jute or sisal.

рогожа
Portuguese
galocha

(19Th century) a man's high tasseled boot.

galocha
Usage of hessian in English
1
And the entreaty wasn't made with a hessian sack full of pineapples.
The Guardian
2
It came, from Sap Nurseries of Mitchelstown, well protected in hessian and wire.
The Irish Times
3
His jazz CDs are transported in a crisp hessian bag patterned with ladybirds.
The Irish Times
4
Poppies was crammed with hessian sacks of corn, cans of jam, and corned meat.
A beautiful place to die
5
He could see his hessian boots protruding from the other side of the truck.
Honour This Day
6
They seemed to have passed at least a mile of continuous brown hessian wall weave.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
7
The rough hessian bag was stuffed with fifty-dollar bills.
The Slab
8
Using the staple gun replace any webbing, if necessary, and staple on a new hessian layer.
The Guardian
9
He wore a pair of fine hessian boots.
Honour This Day
10
Beneath this he wore a quilted aketon padded with hessian, and under that a linen shirt.
Orb Sceptre Throne
11
DEAD No your horse hasn't dropped dead or they've erected the green hessian screen around it.
News.com.au
12
For, amid this week's spats and spangles, hessian and herringbone, something brilliantly British will be taking shape.
The Guardian
13
The layout and displays, with potatoes sold out of hessian sacks, is inspired by Cohen's market-stall roots.
The Guardian
14
DEAD No your horse hasn't dropped dead and they haven't erected the green hessian screen around it.
News.com.au
15
Her hair was cropped short and her dress made of lumpy black stuff hardly finer than hessian.
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
16
The air was refrigerated and the tasteful grey hessian wall-weave had given way to brutal grey bolted steel walls.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
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arpillera
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