cloth

In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally.

1820, Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 6th edition, volume 20, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, page 501:

“It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

There were other types of looms for producing various specialised types of cloth, for example fustians and velvets, but there is not space here to discuss these.

2017, Roger Holden, Manufacturing the Cloth of the World, →ISBN, page 26:

(countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.

One day he came, as I thought accidentally, to dinner. My huſband was very much engaged in buſineſs, and quitted the room ſoon after the cloth was removed.

1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter XI, page 52:

Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.

The first room the people enter was formerly the Presence Chamber, which is hung completely with black, and at the r-end a cloth of estate, with a chair of estate standing upon the Haut-place under the state.

1824, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction:

The stole is a long scarf-like cloth that hangs around the neck, over the shoulders and down the front of bishops and priests [generally, two-four inches across].

2004, Robin D. Gill, Topsy-turvy 1585, →ISBN:

Wipe the surface with a cloth dampened with mineral spirits in order to remove the sanding dust, then brush on a full coat of varnish.

2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to, →ISBN, page 80:

(countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

. If we look beyond the chaos of each moment, we cannot help seeing that we are but one glorious thread in the cloth of life.

2001, Sang H. Kim, The Art of Harmony: A Guide to Happiness, →ISBN, page 14:

The disparate threads contained are, in the cloth of a religious society, ready to revolutionize the world and bring the Kingdom of Heaven into its full reality on earth.

2004, Thomas D. Hamm, The Quakers in America, →ISBN, page 124:

. The rhythm of life in rural Asia has followed an unchanging pattern from generation to generation and for the chronically poor it is soaked in the cloth of continued deprivation.

2009, John Malcolm Dowling, Chin-Fang Yap, Chronic Poverty in Asia: Causes, Consequences and Policies, →ISBN:

A wrinkle in the cloth of time, a cry of soft caress and fragrant dreams to weld the metal fabric souls in blends so held in high regards across the lands and sky.

2012, R. Tirrell Leonard Jr., In The Murmuring Trees, →ISBN, page 79:

(figurative) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.

Like all cultural realities, contemporary modernism is packed with its own myths, its own largely unrecognized metaphors, its own poetics literally perceived -- or should we say, "misperceived"? -- its own reifications and idiosyncratic distinctions. And it comes to us decorated in the cloth of emancipation, a new freedom that would seem to liberate us from those restraints and bonds that were the excretions of an older mindset, an alien political and social order, a rigid and stultifying hierarchy now perceived as riddled with superstition, arbitrary premise, and false conjunction — in contrast, of course, to the liberated mindset that bespeaks our own age!

2002, Patricia L. Munhall, Ed Madden, Virginia Macken Fitzsimons, The Emergence of Man Into the 21st Century, →ISBN, page 407:

Unbelievably, he smiled through his cracked and bleeding lips. A horrible nightmare cloaked in the cloth of good.

2007, Kathy Steffen, First, There Is a River, →ISBN:

Not until rehabilitation was wrapped in the cloth of wartime patriotism—a program billed as necessary for the welfare of disabled soldiers—did it receive overwhelming congressional support.

2011, Beth Linker, War's Waste: Rehabilitation in World War I America, →ISBN, page 148:

After being at your beck and call all these years, he wants a woman, not the consummate teen-ager pretending she's a grownup wrapping her flesh in the cloth of her church.

2014, Shara Russell, In the Shadow of Faith, →ISBN:

But he could not come in the white cloth of celebration to a burial service, and he could hardly come in the cloth of mourning to celebrate his two decades on the stool.

1993, Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture, →ISBN, page 185:

Wearing the cloth of kings would seem to be an appropriate symbol.

2004, Alison Dundes Renteln, The Cultural Defense, →ISBN, page 151:

Occasionally the most fortunate found a jewel, a golden-encrusted dagger, a ring, or some other precious gem which decorated the cloths of glory the Persian chieftains and satraps wore.

2013, Paul Doherty, The House of Death, →ISBN:

The Old Testament Ministers of God, Aaron and his sons, who were the priests, wore special 'cloths of service.' They were dressed in 'holy garments' so that they could stand and offer in the Presence of God, being beautified by them and being enabled through them to perform their sacred duties.

2016, Stephen John Goundry, Hot Coals of Fire: The Sanctity of the Ministry, →ISBN:

A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.

He is a respected man of the cloth.

en-noun

cloth (countable and uncountable, plural cloths or (obsolete) clothes)

cloths (plural)
clothes (obsolete plural)

From Middle English cloth, clath, from Old English clāþ (“cloth, clothes, covering, sail”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą (“garment”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gleyt- (“to cling to, cleave, stick”) (compare Albanian ngjit (“to stick, attach, glue”)), a form of *gleh₁y- (“to smear; to stick”). Cognate with Scots clath (“cloth”), North Frisian klaid (“dress, garment”), Saterland Frisian Klood (“dress, apparel”), West Frisian kleed (“cloth, article of clothing”), Dutch kleed (“robe, dress”), Low German kleed (“dress, garment”), German Kleid (“gown, dress”), Danish klæde (“cloth, dress”), Norwegian klede, Swedish kläde (“cloth”), Icelandic klæði (“cloth, dressing”), Old English clīþan (“to adhere, stick”).


cloth

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cloth m (genitive singular cloith, nominative plural cloith)

cloith (genitive singular)
cloith (nominative plural)
cloth (indefinite nominative singular)
cloith (indefinite nominative plural)
a chloith (indefinite singular vocative)
a chlotha (indefinite plural vocative)
cloith (genitive indefinite singular)
cloth (genitive indefinite plural)
cloth (dative indefinite singular)
cloith (dative indefinite plural)
an cloth (definite nominative singular)
na cloith (definite nominative plural)
an chloith (definite genitive singular)
na gcloth (definite genitive plural)
leis an gcloth (dative definite singular)
don chloth (dative definite singular)
leis na cloith (dative definite plural)
cloth (mutation mutation-radical)
chloth (lenition mutation)
gcloth (eclipsis mutation)

From Old Irish cloth, from Proto-Celtic *klutom (compare Welsh clod), nominalization of Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós (“famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Sanskrit श्रुत (śruta, “famous”), and English loud.


cloth

Cloth; fabric or an individual piece of it, especially made by weaving:

Table linen; a decorative cloth for the table.

An ornamental cloth or carpet with fine detailing.

A specific standard length or area of cloth.

A cloth used to filter or sieve unwanted materials (usually in the kitchen).

The cloth babies are wrapped in; babywear.

whos wynewing cloþ is in his hond .· ⁊ he ſchal fulli clenſe his coꝛn flooꝛ / and he ſchal gadere his wheete in to his berne .· but þe chaf he ſchal bꝛenne wiþ fier þat mai not be quenchid

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 3:12, page 2r, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

His winnowing fan is in his hand; he'll fully clean his threshing-floor, he'll gather up his wheat into his barn, and he'll burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

(often in the plural) An item of clothes; a garment; something to be worn.

⁊ in þe cumpas of þe ſeete.· weren foure ⁊ twentı ſmale ſeetıs ⁊ abouen þe troones foure ⁊ twentı eldere men ſıttynge. hılıd aboute wıþ whıte cloþıs.· ⁊ in þe heedıs of hem golden coꝛouns

c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:4, page 118v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010

And around the perimeter of the seat there were twenty-four small seats, and on those seats twenty-four elders sat, wearing white clothing and having golden crowns on their heads.

(Late Middle English) A bodily tissue or layer.

(Late Middle English, rare) An illness or medical condition evident from boils.

English: cloth

Scots: clath, clathe, claith

From Old English clāþ, from Proto-Germanic *klaiþą.


cloth

cloth n (genitive cluith, nominative plural clotha)

cluith (genitive)
clotha (nominative plural)
cloth (nominative singular)
cloth (dual nominative)
cloth (nominative plural)
clotha (nominative plural)
cloth (singular vocative)
cloth (dual vocative)
cloth (plural vocative)
clotha (plural vocative)
cloth (accusative singular)
cloth (accusative dual)
cloth (accusative plural)
clotha (accusative plural)
cluith (genitive singular)
cloth (dual genitive)
cloth (genitive plural)
cloth (dative singular)
clothaib (dative dual)
clothaib (dative plural)
cluith (mutation mutation-radical)
chluith (mutation mutation-nasal)
cluith (mutation)

Middle Irish: cloth

Irish: cloth

Scottish Gaelic: clòth

From Proto-Celtic *klutom (compare Welsh clod), nominalization of Proto-Indo-European *ḱlutós (“famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλυτός (klutós, “famous”), Sanskrit श्रुत (śruta, “famous”), and English loud.