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cloth 
[klawth, kloth] Pronunciation Key noun, plural cloths
[klawthz, klothz, klawths, kloths] Pronunciation Key, adjective
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[klawth, kloth] Pronunciation Key noun, plural cloths
[klawthz, klothz, klawths, kloths] Pronunciation Key, adjective –noun
–adjective
| 1. | a fabric formed by weaving, felting, etc., from wool, hair, silk, flax, cotton, or other fiber, used for garments, upholstery, and many other items. |
| 2. | a piece of such a fabric for a particular purpose: an altar cloth. |
| 3. | the particular attire of any profession, esp. that of the clergy. Compare man of the cloth. |
| 4. | the cloth, the clergy: men of the cloth. |
| 5. | Nautical.
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| 6. | Obsolete. a garment; clothing. |
| 7. | of or made of cloth: She wore a cloth coat trimmed with fur. |
| 8. | clothbound. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME cloth, clath cloth, garment, OE clāth; c. D kleed, G Kleid]
] —Related forms
clothlike, adjective
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| cloth
(klôth, klŏth) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. cloths (klôths, klôthz, klŏths, klŏthz)
[Middle English, from Old English clāth.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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cloth
O.E. clað "a cloth," hence, "garment," from P.Gmc. *kalithaz, origin obscure. The cloth "the clerical profession" first attested 1701.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| cloth | |
noun | |
| artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: fabric] |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Cloth
Cloth\ (?; 115), n.; pl. Cloths (#; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is Clothes (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn] cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan. kl[ae]de, cloth, Sw. kl["a]de, G. kleid garment, dress.]1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others. 2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. --Quarles. 3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth? --Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. --I. Taylor. Body cloth. See under Body. Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold. Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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