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† Scotch cloth Obs.
A textile fabric resembling lawn, but cheaper; said to have been made of nettle fibre.
1675Grew Anat. Plants, Trunks (1682) 139 Hemp, is nothing else but the Sap-Vessels of the Barque of the Plant so called. And Scotch-Cloath, is only the Housewifery of the same Parts of the Barque of Nettle. 1696J. F. Merch. Wareho. laid open 37 Scotch Cloth..is a sort of white Sleasie Soft-Cloth,..and since Callico hath been dear, is much used for Linnens for Beds and for Window Curtains. a1704T. Brown Dial. Dead, Reas. Oaths Wks. 1711 IV. 76 A Physician turn'd a Zealous Expounder of the Bible; or a Sworn Friend of Scotch-Cloth, reconciled to Lawn-Sleeves. 1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 147/1 A high Altar..at which a brawny Priest officiated in a Habit of Scotch Cloth.
attrib.1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. (1721) i. 54 Because this is a Prying Age, and Scholarship and Craft is not now..confin'd to a Cassock, or Scotch-cloth Sleeves. |