Meaning of topcloth | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cloth used to cover the top of anything, such as a table or a person's torso.
2. A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect the topmen.

Examples

“On one table, for example, we placed a silver topcloth over a rose cotton undercloth.”

“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.”

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