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clout
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a loin covering of cloth or soft leather.
See: breechcloth
Quotations
1824
They rose to great animation or rather fury springing up loosing & droping now & then part of their cloathing until naked to the clout when they began to dance with such vigour & spirit their bunches of Feathers & matted hair moving time, writhing & twisting themselves into such antic positions & such ferocious contortions of countinance that they perhaps fairly undo the War dances of the Iroquois. . . .