Word Meanings - CICLATOUN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.

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• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• COSTER
  One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
• COSTERMONGER
  An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• COSTEAN
  To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• CICLATOUN
  A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages. His robe was of ciclatoun, That coste many a Jane. Chaucer.
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• SADDLECLOTH
  A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
• DEMATERIALIZE
  To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.
• GUNNY; GUNNY CLOTH
  A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for