Word Finder - cloth

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A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.

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

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A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.

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(metaphoric) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.

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(metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.

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

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(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.

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He is a respected man of the cloth.

Why don't you get a wet cloth, Miss Spencer?

He wore a fine, dark-blue, silk-lined cloth coat over a sheepskin.

Men and women do make wool cloth in mills.

Grabbing a wash cloth, she moistened it with cold water.

Rob was holding a bloody cloth over his nose.

During the middle ages the Friday market and fair in Whit week, granted by the first charter, were centres for the sale of yarn and cloth called "Dunsters," made in the town.

Han watched, handing her a wet wash cloth when she was done.

Trade is carried on in flax, cloth, cereals, oilseeds, &c.

The cool damp cloth did wonders to get her own face back to normal and she finally regained control.

Dean jerked the towel from his head and pulled a cloth gag from his mouth.

Jonathan secured his wrist, shook a pillow from its case and pulled the cloth over Dean's head.

Father was a man of the cloth too, just like Edward, and Reverend Martin.

When Dean returned to the motel, the adjoining doors were open and Cynthia Byrne sat on the edge of her bed with one hand holding a phone and the other with a wet face cloth pressed to her forehead.

What is this? shouted the regimental commander, thrusting forward his jaw and pointing at a soldier in the ranks of the third company in a greatcoat of bluish cloth, which contrasted with the others.

She dropped the cloth and moved to the next object, which was obviously a painting.

She dropped the cloth as she heard tires crunching on gravel.

When he returned, he pulled a chair from the wall nearer her and dipped one cloth in water, tugging her arm away from her.

But you'd look super in a sack cloth and rags.

You're letting this saintly man of the cloth off a bit easy, aren't you?

Denton dabbed at his mouth with the cloth and stared sourly at the blood.

Silk fabrics, coarse woollen cloth, paper and clocks are manufactured.

The floor of the stage consisted of smooth boards, at the sides was some painted cardboard representing trees, and at the back was a cloth stretched over boards.

The price of weapons, of gold, of carts and horses, kept rising, but the value of paper money and city articles kept falling, so that by midday there were instances of carters removing valuable goods, such as cloth, and receiving in payment a half of what they carted, while peasant horses were fetching five hundred rubles each, and furniture, mirrors, and bronzes were being given away for nothing.

The corpse was covered with a white sheet, but before pulling the cloth back, the attendant again looked at Cynthia, who nodded.

The boy murmured in wonder at the soft cloth.

Its trade also in books, hops, horses, and cloth is considerable, and a large banking and exchange business is done here.

The name is also applied to a special kind of wall-paper, which has an appearance almost like cloth, or, in the more expensive kinds, of velvet.

Honour is shown to an adult when he dies, by wrapping him in a cloth and placing him on a platform in a tree instead of burying him.

I have seen Penobscot Indians, in this town, living in tents of thin cotton cloth, while the snow was nearly a foot deep around them, and I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind.

She tiptoed over to one of the cloth-covered objects, keeping a wary eye on the door, and carefully lifted the cloth.

She crossed to the boxes she had stacked in the corner and covered with a square of cloth.

After Cynthia came out and administered a cold face cloth, Edith seemed somewhat better, enough to decline medical attention, though she remained disoriented even after reaching Ryland's small quarters.

Alex was wiping Ed down with a cloth.

Gerald shook the table cloth out and held it down in the breeze while Carmen clipped it to the table one-handed.

Sean's body collapsed beneath the blanket, and the ocean's wind whipped the cloth into the air.

Mohair cloth is manufactured, and the town is noted for its honey and fruit.

In October he appears dining in the hall there as a guest, and at Christmas 1442 he received a royal livery, five yards of violet cloth, as provost of Eton.

The opportunity of utilizing the wool for textile industries has not yet been taken, though Sardinian women are accustomed to weave strong and durable cloth.

The costume of the Tosks differs from that of the Ghegs; its distinctive feature is the white plaited linen fustanella or petticoat, which has been adopted by the Greeks; the Ghegs wear trews of white or crimson native cloth adorned with black braid, and a short, close-fitting jacket, which in the case of wealthy persons is embellished with gold lace.

It has manufactures of coarse cloth, spirits and soap. The nearest railway station is Calasparra, 6 m.

The town has manufactures of tobacco, cloth and hosiery.

Local industries include the manufacture of coarse cloth, esparto fabrics, oil and flour.

The colonists of the patroons were exempted from all taxes for a period of ten years, but were forbidden to manufacture any cloth whatever.

Its cloth and wool manufactories are among the most extensive in Prussia.

They also weave cloth, make pottery and smelt iron.

The other end of the sounder is stroked outwards with a damp cloth so as to make it sound its fundamental.

If the wire is stretched across a room and stroked in the middle with a damp cloth the fundamental is easily obtained, and the first harmonic can be brought out by stroking it at a quarter the length from one end.

The formerly considerable manufacture of the heavier kinds of cloth has died out.

The material is always of kashida, a kind of embroidered cloth.

Plain cloth and worsteds are also manufactured.