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Cloth (?; 115), n.; pl.
Cloths (#; 115), except in the sense of
garments, when it is Clothes (klōthz or
klōz). [OE. clath cloth, AS. clāþ
cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel.
klæði, Dan. klæde, cloth, Sw.
kläde, G. kleid garment, dress.]
1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or
sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of
cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments;
specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all
others.

2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See
Clothes.

I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and
bread.

Quarles.

3. The distinctive dress of any
profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical
profession.

Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they
tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their
cloth?

Macaulay.

The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for
administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . .
every axiom.

I.


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