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† ˈclout-shoe Obs. Now (arch.)
clouted shoe.
[Clout, also clot, may have been orig. pa. pple.: see clout v.]
1. A shoe having the sole protected with iron plates, or studded with large-headed nails. (It may also mean a patched shoe, and in some passages the actual sense cannot be determined.)
1463Paston Lett. No. 465 II. 125 That men..shuld make redy her bald batts and her clot shon.
[1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 214, I thought he slept, and put My clowted Brogues from off my feete, whose rudenesse Answer'd my steps too lowd.] 1634Milton Comus 635 The dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon. a1635Corbet Poems (1807) 128 And leav'st such printes on beauty, that dost come As clouted shon do on a floore of lome. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. xlvi. (1741) 247 Linsey-wolsey coats.. clouted shoes, yarn stockings. 1800Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Spring 82 The dirt adhesive loads his clouted shoes. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 342 Armed men, with a clouted shoe and a cart wheel for their standards.
†2. One who wears clouted shoes; a clown, a boor. Obs. (Cf. Spenser's Colin Clout.)
1589R. Robinson Gold. Mirr. 271 Poore clout-shooes gate their clubs. 1613Markham Eng. Husbandman i. i. ii. (1635) 4 The ordinarie Tillers of the earth, such as we call Husbandmen..and generally the Clout-shoo.
1563Mirr. Mag., Blacksmith i, Where is more craft than in the clowted shoen? 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1702) 98 The Man of Title, as well as the Clouted Shoe. c1690B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Clouted-shoon, a Country Clown. a1704T. Brown 2 Oxf. Scholars Wks. 1730 I. 9 So full of..knavery are clouted shoes. |