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clouter|ˈklaʊtə(r)|
Also 5 cloutere, clutere, clowtere, 5–8 clowter.
[f. clout v. + -er.]
One who clouts, mends, or patches (lit. and fig.); a cobbler, or patcher; a botcher.
c1440Promp. Parv. 84 Clowter, or cobelere. 1565Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 171 A Clowter of Skinnes, or A Cobler. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 415 What will this clouter patch together out of this? 1615Curry-c. for Cox-c. i. 11 He kissed like a clowter. 1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 214 Clowters, and Botchers of old trumpery Stuff.
Hence † clouter-like a. = clouterly.
a1624Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 145 The verses are but clouter-like, (vnworthy such an Vniversity as Padway). |