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"english": "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.",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 4:4, folio 118, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010",
"text": "⁊ 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",
"translation": "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."
}
],
"glosses": [
"Clothes, apparel; what is worn."
],
"links": [
[
"Clothes",
"clothes"
],
[
"apparel",
"apparel"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Late Middle English"
],
"glosses": [
"A bodily tissue or layer."
],
"links": [
[
"tissue",
"tissue"
],
[
"layer",
"layer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Late Middle English) A bodily tissue or layer."
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Late Middle English",
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"An illness or medical condition evident from boils."
],
"links": [
[
"illness",
"illness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Late Middle English, rare) An illness or medical condition evident from boils."
],
"tags": [
"Late-Middle-English",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/klɑːθ/",
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English",
"Northern"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/klɔːθ/"
}
],
"word": "cloth"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cloth meaning in Middle English (7.7kB)
{
"called_from": "page/1498/20230118",
"msg": "''Cloth; fabric or an individual'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"cloth"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "cloth",
"trace": ""
}
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