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Clothe vs Clote - What's the difference?

clothe | clote |

As a verb clothe

is to adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.

As a noun clote is

(obsolete) the common burdock; the clotbur.

clothe

English

Verb

  • To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
    • to feed and clothe''' a family; to '''clothe oneself extravagantly
  • * Shakespeare
    • Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 21
    • Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The naked every day he clad , / When he put on his clothes.
  • (figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
    • to clothe somebody with authority or power
  • * Watts
    • language in which they can clothe their thoughts
  • * J. Dyer
    • His sides are clothed with waving wood.
  • * Milton
    • words clothed in reason's garb

    clote

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
  • * 1380s , , 9, vi,
    • A nettle schal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.
  • * 14thC', '', '''1987 , Larry Dean Benson (editor), ''The Riverside Chaucer , 2008, 3rd Edition, page 270,
    • A clote -leef he hadde under his hood / For swoot and for to keep his heed from heete.
    (Webster 1913)