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Definition of Clokes
1. cloke [v] - See also: cloke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clokes
Literary usage of Clokes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"... be called also Clapper- dogen?, these go with patched clokes, and haue their
morts with them which they cal ..."
2. The Lismore Papers of Richard Boyle, First and "Great" Earl of Cork by Alexander Balloch Grosart, Richard Boyle Cork (1886)
"... clokes for my 2 footmen & to hasten them hether. 15. I sent by Mr Hunt a boxe
of lettres to be by him delivered to Mr Wm ..."
3. Extracts from the Records of the Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, John Roberts Boyle, Frederick Walter Dendy (1899)
"[Elstob and Gray presented bills for pall and clokes] which were then brought
into court and after vew were very well approved of, and ordered the said ..."
4. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry by Thomas Robson (1830)
"Bach of them to have six Servants in coats, or three in clokes. ... And to have
allowance for four servants in coats, or two in clokes. ..."
5. Records of the Borough of Nottingham: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Nottingham (England). (1885)
"5 Also the seid Mayre and his Bredren to were there seid clokes and last ...
Also the s«'d Mayre and his Bredren to were there seid clokes and last ..."
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