cloth
pronunciation
How to pronounce cloth in British English:
UK [klɒθ]
How to pronounce cloth in American English:
US [klɔːθ]
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- Noun:
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
Word Origin
- cloth
- cloth: [OE] The history of the word cloth is not known, beyond the fact that its immediate source is Germanic (German has the related kleid ‘garment’). In Old English it meant both ‘piece of fabric’ and ‘fabric in general’, and in the plural it was applied to ‘garments’ (hence modern English clothes). The verb clothe, too, probably goes back to Old English times, although it is not recorded before the 12th century.
- cloth (n.)
- Old English claþ "a cloth, sail, cloth covering, woven or felted material to wrap around one," hence, also, "garment," from Proto-Germanic *kalithaz (cognates: Old Frisian klath "cloth," Middle Dutch cleet, Dutch kleed "garment, dress," Middle High German kleit, German Kleid "garment"), of obscure origin. As an adjective from 1590s. The cloth "the clerical profession" is from 17c. in reference to characteristic dress.
Example
- 1. A cloth covers your couch ; keep it clean !
- 2. Most people had to make temporary houses out of cloth .
- 3. That is a lot less messy than handling sticky cloth .
- 4. I allowed the negative space between pattern pieces on the cloth define a new pattern .
- 5. The finest cloth was bought .