poodle cloth

poodle cloth (uncountable)

1. (now rare) A type of shaggy (originally wool) cloth, resembling the fur of a poodle. [from 19th c.]
   • 1977, Angela Carter, “The Paris of the North”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 218:

     I managed to purchase a square-cut early sixties coat in a fabric we used to call poodle cloth for the price of a kebab and chips on The Smoke.