cloth
/klɒθ/ noun A1- A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically. · Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric
- Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
- A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
- Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
- Appearance; seeming.
- A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
- The priesthood. · He is a respected man of the cloth.
Plural cloths
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The cut of his clothes would have made him pass for an elegant man, if those clothes had not been torn to shreds; still they did not show signs of wear, and the fine cloth, beneath the careful hands of the prisoner, soon recovered its gloss in the parts which were still perfect, for the wearer tried his best to make it assume the appearance of a new coat.
True, Anne could not help a little pang when she contrasted her plain black tam and shapeless, tight-sleeved, homemade gray-cloth coat with Diana’s jaunty fur cap and smart little jacket.
The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.
Cloth of gold for coverlet there was none, but an old piano scarf of yellow Japanese crepe was an excellent substitute.
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