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Definition of Clouts
1. clout [v] - See also: clout
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clouts
Literary usage of Clouts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1881)
"... Wi' sic cursed pride at the lowly and blameless, Wha trudge thro' the warld
wi' a bundle o' clouts. Oh ! did they but think o' the ..."
2. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1866)
"They are of frequent occurrence in the accounts. clouts are used to strengthen
the axles of can wheels. Nails are reckoned by the hundred. ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"... my babie-clouts t While his mate sits nestling in the bush ; Sonnet, writ, on
Birthday. .... clouts ..."
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