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Hamlet vocabulary
40 archaic vocabulary words
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clout
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{concrete noun}
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Definition:a fragment of cloth or leather
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Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames
With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head
Where late the diadem stodd, and for a robe
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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With all your broths, your menstrues, and materials,
Of piss and egg-shells, women's terms, man's blood,
Hair o' the head, burnt clouts, chalk, merds, and clay,
Powder of bones, scalings of iron, glass,
And worlds of other strange ingredients,
Would burst a man to name?
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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he just pulls off his shirt. It’s torn here and there and filthy as a clout, but he folds it up careful like it was his Sunday best, and lays it on the ground.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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