Definition of Cloth

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Definition of Cloth

Cloth

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.

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

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

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Cloth Quotations

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
John Le Carre

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Emile Durkheim

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
Benjamin Harrison

And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.
John Sexton

I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns.
John Sexton

I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.
Alice Hoffman

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?
Brendan Fraser

You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.
Jules Shear

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.
Rudolf Hiferding

Cloth Translations

cloth in Dutch is laken
cloth in Finnish is kangas, liina
cloth in German is Tuch
cloth in Hungarian is ruhaanyag
cloth in Italian is stoffa, stoffa, ordito, vestire
cloth in Latin is tela
cloth in Portuguese is pano
cloth in Spanish is pa o, tejido, revestir
cloth in Swedish is duk, tyg

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