cloth
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cloth/klɒθ/
▶noun (pl. cloths)
- 1 woven, knitted, or felted fabric made from a soft fibre such as wool or cotton.
- 2 a piece of cloth for a particular purpose.
- 3 (the cloth) the clergy; the clerical profession.
– origin OE clāth, of unknown origin.
'cloth' also found in these Oxford entries:
amice
- antimacassar
- backdrop
- badge
- banner
- barathea
- barkcloth
- beaver
- bedspread
- beetle
- beret
- bib
- billiard table
- blackwork
- blindfold
- Board of Green Cloth
- breadth
- buckram
- buff
- burl
- burnet
- burse
- busby
- butter muslin
- calamanco
- calender
- calico
- canopy
- canvas
- carpet slipper
- cerecloth
- cerement
- chador
- chambray
- cheesecloth
- Cheviot
- chintz
- chrisom
- cilice
- cloth cap
- clothe
- cloth-eared
- clothes
- clothier
- cloth of gold
- clout
- corded
- corporal
- court plaster
