1
: a coarse heavy plain-woven fabric usually of jute or hemp used for bagging and wrapping and in furniture and linoleum manufacture
2
: a lightweight material resembling burlap used in interior decoration or for clothing
Examples of burlap in a Sentence
The bag is made of burlap.
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Towering Pacific madrone trees and Douglas fir appeared like ghostly shapes around the area where, months earlier, friends and family had emptied seven burlap bags that held Wayne’s mulch-like remains and raked them into a dry sprawling puddle under the trees.
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Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
The arrest came more than a decade after the four women's bodies were found wrapped in burlap and dumped on the strip of seashore in 2010.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
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Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2024
The arrest came more than a decade after the four women's bodies were found wrapped in burlap and dumped on the strip of seashore in 2010.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
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“Burlap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burlap. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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burlap
noun
bur·lap
ˈbər-ˌlap 
: a rough fabric made usually from jute or hemp and used mostly for bags and wrappings
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