Rags vs Cloth - What's the difference?
rags | cloth |
(rag)
(uncountable) A woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
A form of attire that represents a particular profession.
(in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
As nouns the difference between rags and cloth
is that rags is the first month of the year; see also while cloth is (uncountable) a woven fabric such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.rags
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(head)Derived terms
* rags to riches * glad rags * in rags * rags and tattersVerb
(head)Anagrams
* * ----cloth
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)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 . […]”}}
