cloute
See also: clouté
French
Verb
cloute
- inflection of clouter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Middle English
Noun
cloute
- Alternative form of clout
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 707-709:
- And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.
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