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Encyclopedia Britannica



CLOTH

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 557 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
CLOTH , properly a covering, especially for the
body
 , clothing, then the material of which such a covering is made; hence any material
woven
  of wool or
hair
 ,
cotton
 , flax or vegetable fibre.
In commercial usage, the word is particularly applied to a fabric made of wool. The word is Teutonic, though it does not appear in all the branches of the language. It appears in German as Kleid, dress (Kleidung, clothing), and in Dutch as kleed. The ultimate origin is unknown; it may be ,connected with the root kli- meaning to stick, cling to, which appears in " clay," " cleave " and other words. The
original
  meaning would be either that which clings to the
body
 , or that which is pressed or " felted " together. The
regular
  plural of " cloth " was " clothes," which is now confined in meaning to articles of clothing, garments, in which sense the singular " cloth " is not now used. For that word, in its modern sense of material, the plural " cloths " is used. This form
dates
  from the beginning of the 17th
century
 , but the distinction in meaning between
cloths " and " clothes " is a 19th-
century
  one.


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