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English
Etymology
From Middle English clote, Old English clāte, from Proto-West Germanic *klaitā.
Noun
clote
- (obsolete) The common burdock; the clotbur.
- (botany) The yellow waterlily.
Anagrams
Champenois
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /klɔt/
Noun
clote (f)
- Alternative form of quioche
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
clote
- Alternative form of clete (“cleat”)
Etymology 2
From Old English clāte, from Proto-West Germanic *klaitā.
Noun
clote (plural clotes)
- burdock, clote
- 1380s, John Wycliffe, Bible, Osee , 9, vi,
A nettle schal enherite the desirable siluer of hem, a clote schal be in the tabernaclis of hem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Prologe of the Chanouns Yemannes Tale, The Canterbury Tales, 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.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)