Also 4 clutte. [f. CLOUT v. + -ED.]
1. Mended with a patch or patches, patched.
c. 1000. Heptateuch, Josh. ix. 5. Geclútode bytta.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 40. With rent cokrez at þe kne & his clutte trasches.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VII. 55. He caste on his cloþes I-clouted and I-hole.
1596. Bell, Surv. Popery, III. x. 476. Like unto a clowted beggars cloake.
1611. Bible, Josh. ix. 5. Old shooes and clowted vpon their feet.
1651. Cleveland, Poems, 33. A league with mouldy bread, and clouted shoos.
1837. Howitt, Rur. Life, III. ii. (1862), 210. Clouted shoes, threadbare and patched clothes.
2. Furnished or protected with an iron clout or clouts; studded with clout-nails. Cf. CLOUT-SHOE.
c. 1394. [see CLOUT v. 3].
1622. F. Markham, Bk. War, III. iv. § 6. The axle trees … well clouted. [See examples under CLOUT-SHOE.]
3. fig. Put together clumsily, patched up, botched. Passing into an expression of depreciation.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., lxxxvii. in Sel. Wks., I. 302. So stondiþ þer cloutid reule, boþe in good and in yvel.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 485 b. Your illfavouredly patcht Reasons … and those your clouted conclusions.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., I. xviii. If fond Bavius vent his clouted song.
1642. Sir E. Dering, Sp. on Relig., 142. A Pestilence to all government, a traiterous and a clouted Anarchy.
1665. J. Spencer, Prophecies, 14. When subtil men shall see us … give reverence to every vain person and clouted rhime.
4. Covered with, or wrapped in, a clout or cloth.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., March, 50. Thilke same vnhappie Ewe, Whose clouted legge her hurt doth shewe.
1880. Blackmore, Mary Anerley, III. iv. 63. Here he stopped short,… and turned his clouted neck.
