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clo'|kləʊ|
Shortening of clothes n. pl., esp. in old clo' (see old-clothes-man, -shop s.v. old a. D. 4). Now Hist.
1844Punch 22 June 261/1 The party that claim To take to themselves of Young England the name;..It seems after all are the tribe of Old Clo! 1851[see old-clothes-shop s.v. old a. D. 4]. 1874L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 95 Any nice clo' make one feel a different person. 1922Joyce Ulysses 417 Where's the Henry Nevil's sawbones and old clo? 1932Daily Express 28 Jan. 15/3 Cornhill{ddd}here were a corn market and small shops inhabited by haberdashers and old clo' men. 1981P. Van Greenaway ‘Cassandra’ Bell xiii. 161 The cry of an old clo' man gave reassurance that God was, after all, in his heaven. |