Define the word cloth"Cloth" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Cloth \Cloth\ (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. Cloths (kl[o^][th]z;
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[aum]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.
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2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
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I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread.
--Quarles.
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3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the
clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
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Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they
tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to
their cloth? --Macaulay.
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The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for
administering and for giving the best possible
effect to . . . every axiom. --I. Taylor.
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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.
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"cloth" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
cloth
n : artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or
crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in
the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent"; "woven
cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she
measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: fabric,
material, textile]
"cloth" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloth":
act drop, asbestos, asbestos board, backdrop, batten, boltrope,
border, canonicals, canvas, ceremonial attire, clericals, clew,
coulisse, counterweight, cringle, crowd of sail, curtain,
curtain board, cyclorama, decor, drapery, drop, drop curtain,
earing, episcopal vestments, etoffe, fabric, felt, fire curtain,
flat, flipper, foot, fore-and-aft sail, goods, hanging, head, lace,
leech, liturgical garments, luff, material, muslin, napery,
plain sail, pontificalia, pontificals, press of sail, rag,
reduced sail, reef point, reefed sail, robes, sail, scene, scenery,
screen, side scene, silk, square sail, stage screw, stuff, tab,
tableau, teaser, textile, textile fabric, texture, the cloth,
tissu, tissue, tormentor, transformation, transformation scene,
vestments, vesture, weave, web, weft, wing, wingcut, woodcut, woof,
wool
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