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Cloth vs Raiment - What's the difference?

cloth | raiment |

As nouns the difference between cloth and raiment

is that cloth is (uncountable) a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use while raiment is (archaic|or|literary) clothing, garments, dress, material.

cloth

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth . […]”}}
  • A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
  • A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
  • (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.

    • Synonyms

    * (woven fabric) material, stuff * See also

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from "cloth") * cheesecloth * cut from the same cloth * dishcloth * facecloth * horsecloth * loincloth * man of the cloth * sackcloth * tablecloth * take the cloth * washcloth * whole cloth, from whole cloth, out of whole cloth * wire cloth

    Related terms

    * clothe, clothes, clothing

    raiment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, literary) Clothing, garments, dress, material.
  • * William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXII, 5,6.
    • ''For all that beauty that doth cover thee
    Is but the seemly raiment of my heart
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1866 , first = Algernon , last = Swinburne , authorlink = Algernon Swinburne , title = Aholibah , section = lines 11-12 , passage = Strange raiment clad thee like a bride,
    With silk to wear on hands and feet }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2006-12-24 , title = The Courtier's Reply , first = PZ , last = Myers , authorlink = PZ Myers , site = , url = http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/the_courtiers_reply.php , accessdate = 2011-10-30 , passage = We have entire schools dedicated to writing learned treatises on the beauty of the Emperor's raiment, and every major newspaper runs a section dedicated to imperial fashion... }}

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