CLOTH

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Traducere în limba română

cloth substantiv

1. ţesătură, stofă (mai ales de lână); postav, pânză; stofă de bumbac; percal;

cloth of gold brocart brocart de aur; ţesătură cu fir de aur;

bound in cloth legat în pânză;

(amer.) out of the whole cloth (o minciună) de la început până la sfârşit; nici o iotă de adevăr în toată povestea;

(prov.) cut your coat according to your cloth întinde-te cât ţi-e plapuma.

2. clothes plural îmbrăcăminte, haine, strai(e); rufe, rufărie, albituri; (şi bed cloth) rufărie de pat, lenjerie de pat, aşternut;

fatigue clothes haine de lucru; salopetă.

3. cloths plural bucăţi de stofă; feluri sau mostre de stofă, stofe.

4. cârpă de şters (praful).

5. (şi table cloth) faţă de masă;

to lay the cloth a aşterne faţa de masă, a pune masa.

6. anteriu, rasă; uniformă; livrea;

to wear the cloth a purta uniformă, a fi soldat, militar;

to wear the (black) cloth a fi preot;

gentlemen of the cloth cler, preoţi(me), oameni în sutane.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Our gas was lit and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the table had not been cleared yet.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After picking out the silver shoe, which was all that was left of the old woman, she cleaned and dried it with a cloth, and put it on her foot again.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

The cloth was only laid for us two; but Agnes was waiting in the drawing-room before dinner, went down with her father, and sat opposite to him at table.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Maria came in several times to change the cold cloths on his forehead.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He began by taking a clean white cloth from a drawer and laying it over the table.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Leastways, this is good sea-cloth.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

She took a little basket and filled it with bread from the cupboard, laying a white cloth over the top. Then she looked down at her feet and noticed how old and worn her shoes were.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

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