Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of cloth.
  • Obsolete forms of clothe.

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  • noun obsolete cloth
  • noun obsolete clothes, clothing, usually made of leather or skin

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Examples

  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Page 174: “Countries are populous, not in proportion to the number of people whom their produce can cloath and lodge, but in proportion to that of those whom it can feed.”

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Page 174: “Countries are populous, not in proportion to the number of people whom their produce can cloath and lodge, but in proportion to that of those whom it can feed.”

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009

  • “Every officer of the Virginia Regiment is, as soon as possible, to provide himself with an uniform dress,” he ordered on October 5, “which is to be of fine broad cloath: The coat blue, faced and cuffed with scarlet, with a plain silver lace if to be had, the breeches to be blue; and everyone to provide himself with a silver-laced hat, of a fashionable size.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Linguistic values and religious experiences: An analysis of clothing metaphors in Alexander Richardson's Ramist-Puritan lectures on speech, "Speech is a garment to cloath our reason."

    American Rhetoric - Christian Rhetoric Scholarly Reference Guide 2010

  • Gold; and unless we do part with it, it is of no use to us; since we can't eat, drink, or warm ourselves by it: And, as of itself it can neither feed, warm, nor cloath us, so neither can it make us Ploughshares,

    A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

  • But I need not mention the exceptions which my beloved friend always made [and to which I subscribe] in favour of men of sound learning, true taste, and extensive abilities; nor, in particular, her respect even to reverence for gentlemen of the cloath; which, I dare say, will appear in every paragraph of her letters wherever any of the clergy are mentioned.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • He immediately gave the mother a couple of guineas, with which he bid her cloath her children.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

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