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cloth

[ klawth, kloth ]

noun

plural cloths
  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, especially that of the clergy. Compare man of the cloth.
  4. the cloth, the clergy:

    men of the cloth.

  5. Nautical.
    1. one of the lengths of canvas or duck of standard width sewn side by side to form a sail, awning, or tarpaulin.
    2. any of various pieces of canvas or duck for reinforcing certain areas of a sail.
    3. a number of sails taken as a whole.
  6. Obsolete. a garment; clothing.


adjective

  1. of or made of cloth:

    She wore a cloth coat trimmed with fur.

cloth

/ ɒθ /

noun

    1. a fabric formed by weaving, felting or knitting wool, cotton, etc
    2. ( as modifier )

      a cloth bag

  1. a piece of such fabric used for a particular purpose, as for a dishcloth
  2. the cloth
    1. the clothes worn by a clergyman
    2. the clergy
  3. obsolete.
    clothing
  4. nautical any of the panels of a sail
  5. a piece of coloured fabric, used on the stage as scenery
  6. a garment in a traditional non-European style
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • dzٳl adjective
  • ܲd·dzٳ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cloth1

before 900; Middle English cloth, clath cloth, garment, Old English ٳ; cognate with Dutch kleed, German Kleid
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cloth1

Old English ٳ; related to Old Frisian ŧٳ, Middle High German kleit cloth, clothing
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Idioms and Phrases

see out of whole cloth ; sackcloth and ashes .
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"If the funding isn't available they are going to have to cut their cloth accordingly, so you might not have the frequency of services that people want and expect."

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Then, there are rare Indo-Portuguese embroideries and some Haji Rumals - embroidered religious cloth once exported to Indonesia and parts of the Arab world as a headdress for men.

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It includes sand and permeable cloth topped with a hybrid carpet of cool-season grass grown in Lake Moses, Wash., trucked to Inglewood, then rolled out in strips four feet wide and 45 feet long.

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“We played our best baseball at the end of the year, and I felt like that was when we were really close and everybody was pulling from the same cloth,” veteran utilityman Chris Taylor said.

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Those killed included nine children and four women, the residents said, sending the AP photos of the bodies draped in white cloth as they were lined in the mass grave.

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