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cloth

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noun/klɒθ//klɔːθ//klɔθ/
  1. 1

    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.countableuncountable

    • Near-synonyms: (not always differentiated) fabric, material (fabric sense), textile; see also Thesaurus:fabric
  2. 2

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

    • 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.
  3. 3

    A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.countable

    • 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.
    • 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].
  4. 4

    Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.countablefigurativelyuncountable

    • . 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.
    • 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.
  5. 5

    Appearance; seeming.countablefigurativelyuncountable

    • Unbelievably, he smiled through his cracked and bleeding lips. A horrible nightmare cloaked in the cloth of good.
    • 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.
  6. 6

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

    • 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.
    • Wearing the cloth of kings would seem to be an appropriate symbol.
  7. 7

    The priesthood.countableidiomaticuncountable

    • He is a respected man of the cloth.

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