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short cloth
A kind of cotton cloth or calico manufactured in short pieces. Also a length or piece of such cloth.
1545[see long cloth]. 1641Hakewill Libertie Subj. 93 The custom upon a short cloth was fourteene-pence, and..a sack of Wool did commonly make foure short clothes. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. v. lxxi. 322 Cloth exported to Turkey the five preceding years..short cloths. |