whole clothn.adj.adv.

Brit.

/ˌhəʊl ˈklɒθ/,

/ˈhəʊl klɒθ/, U.S.

/ˈhoʊl ˈklɔθ/,

/ˈhoʊl ˈklɑθ/

Forms: see whole adj., n., and adv. and cloth n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: whole adj., cloth n.

Etymology: < whole adj. + cloth n. Compare broadcloth n., long cloth n.

A. n.

1. Cloth of the full size as manufactured, as distinguished from a piece cut off for a garment or other item. Also as a count noun: a piece of cloth of this type. Now esp. with reference to quilting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > of specific size

whole cloth1402

pattern1695

tan1876

1402 in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1932) 8 262 (MED) I pray ȝow þat ȝe wyl..sende me worde wat prys of an hol cloþ of blak veluet.

1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §56. m. 3 Hole clothes, called brode clothes.

a1500 Tracts Eng. Weights & Meas. 16 in Camden Misc. (1929) XV (MED) A Pak of Clothe. Also clothe is sold by numbyr, for x hole clothys make a pak; so that euery hole cloth or euery dossynne be hole in lengthe, xxiiij yerdes.

1525 Wydow Edyth in W. C. Hazlitt Shakespeare Jest-bks. (1864) 58 Might I be so bolde as of your hole cloth To desire you for to deliuer vnto me As much as wyll suffyse..To make a large Gowne and a Kyrtell.

1605 Proclam. James I 16 Sept. For the measuring, searching and sealing of euery whole Cloth, one halfe peny to the Alnager for his fee.

1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter vii. 217 The Soveraign's Mother had allowed her one whole Cloth, and a double proportion of Scarlet.

1724 Act 11 Geo. I c. 24 §1 Every Woollen Broad Cloth,..whether..called an End or Half Cloth, or a Long or Whole Cloth.

1781 E. Ledwich in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibern. II. ix. 383 The rich had also their whole cloth, extremely fine, that had passed the alnage.

1847 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 1 Jan. 16 A tailor may cut a garment out of whole cloth without difficulty.

1899 P. L. Ford Janice Meredith li. 404 From stores in the attic the mother produced pieces of whole cloth.

1920 Fibre & Fabric 14 Feb. 6/3 Goods shown consisted of serges, velours, broadcloths, whole cloths, tricotines and coatings.

1995 J. Forrest & D. Blincoe Nat. Hist. Quilt i. 22 The ‘pattern’ is the entire face of a piece of whole cloth.

2001 K. Guerrier Encycl. Quilting & Patchwork Techniques 9/2 The top layer of the quilt which can be patchwork, appliqué or wholecloth.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Esp. in (made, cut, manufactured, etc.) out of (the) whole cloth.

a. Used in various senses reflecting the nature of whole cloth, such as its size, its uncut and unworked state when manufactured, or the fact that it is composed of a single material unmixed with other kinds of cloth. In later use frequently with reference to something made or undertaken without relying on previous work.

ΚΠ

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes (new ed.) ii. f. xcij He played the courtyer all togyther, and fashyoned hymselfe wholly to the kynges delyghtes. He ruffled it out in the whole clothe wyth a myghtye rable of digised ruffianes at his tayle.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 46 Two or three thousand pound... When hee hath it all in his handes, for a month or two he reuels it, and cuts it out in the whole cloth.

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman i. 5 The valiant Souldier..measureth out of the whole cloath his Honour with his sword.

1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 333 They cut it out of the whole cloth, and divide their acres peece-meale into shreds.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. vi. 177 This rent (not in the seam but whole cloth) betwixt these Churches.

1677 W. Hubbard Pres. State New-Eng. ii. 1 The List or Border here being known to be more worth then the whole Cloth; That whole Tract of Land, being of little worth, unless it were for the Borders thereof upon the Sea-coast.

1749 E. Turrell Life B. Colman iv. 29 An itinerant, powerful, illiterate Preacher..cut Mr. Colman out of the whole Cloth, as he used pleasantly to relate it, and left him but three Votes.

1762 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. XIII. 169 He enjoys the honour of the priesthood, while he laughs at the whole cloth.

1838 Musical Rev. 27 Oct. 244/1 Although three fourths of it [sc. a hypothetical oratorio] be taken in ‘whole cloth’ from other authors, and the remaining part made up of patch-work, who will know it?

1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 612 Fortunately, we have not to begin our experiments out of whole cloth.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xii. 270 That Eton captain is cut out of whole cloth; no shoddy there.

1966 L. Pitt Decline of Californios (1998) i. 6 Local leaders had to manufacture civil government from the whole cloth, with little formal preparation.

2012 P. Valliere Conciliarism ii. 83 The orthodox consensus..was not cut from whole cloth by Christian intellectuals.

b. colloquial (chiefly North American). Used to indicate that a statement, report, story, etc., is wholly false, with no basis in fact or reality. Cf. fabricate v. 2, to make up 6c at make v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun]

invention1526

forgery1582

fiction1605

romance1668

fabrication1790

whole cloth1823

concoction1831

fictionizing1938

1823 Christian Reg. (Boston) 28 Feb. 114/3 All this and much more was made up out of the whole cloth, and circulated as so much gospel by those who knew it was all false.

1868 Amer. Entomologist 1 245/1 Paragraphs like this..are sheer humbug and delusion, manufactured out of whole cloth.

1910 McClure's Mag. May 107/2 This despatch was a ‘fake’ from whole cloth.

1950 ‘J. Tey’ To love & be Wise x. 119 He'll make up a story out of whole cloth if he doesn't get an interview.

2001 Tin House Mag. Summer 185 Our theory is that Dunand himself created the Chicken Marengo legend out of whole cloth, as a foil to his own embarrassment at Austerlitz.

B. adj.

1. Chiefly North American. Of a statement, report, story, etc.: that is ‘made out of whole cloth’ (see sense A. 2); totally fabricated; unfounded.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective] > entirely

whole cloth1831

1831 Boston Masonic Mirror 19 Feb. 266/2 This noted paper, that has since been proved a whole-cloth falsehood.

1850 Water-cure Jrnl. 9 82/1 Those who are accustomed to swallow huge doses of ‘potecary’ poisons, under the agreeable delusion that they are medicines, may be willing to gulp down this whole-cloth fabrication with a vague idea that there may be some truth in it.

1882 Testimony in Sessinghaus vs. Frost, 3rd Congress. District Missouri 47th Congr., 1st Sess.: U.S. House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 27 III. 2128 The fact of the matter is that we have no whole-cloth stories on our side of the house; we have no imaginations which carry us out of the realms of truth and evidence.

1971 Washington Post 22 Sept. b10/3 Conceivably he might consider this telling a partial truth, rather than a whole cloth lie.

2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xi. 180 In the manner of the genre known as medieval forgery, replete with direct altered borrowings, reflection of sources, doubtful attributions and whole cloth inventions.

2. Esp. of a quilt: made from (a length or lengths of) whole cloth rather than from patchwork.

ΚΠ

1956 L. K. Haas & R. B. Haas Quilts, Counterpanes & Related Printed Fabrics 11 Two aristocratic types of quilts which imply either the ability to buy imported material or the leisure to execute a complex design are the whole-cloth quilt and the all white quilt.

1989 Country Premier Issue 37/2 Arlene Statz decorated her whole-cloth pillow with fine quilting worked with burgundy thread.

1990 USA Today (Nexis) 12 Nov. 4 b The earliest quilts were whole-cloth (not patched), often of linsey-woolsey—cotton or linen woven with wool.

2004 Quilter's Newsletter Mag. July 90/1 With her love for hand quilting, Sandie focused on stitching award-winning whole-cloth quilts in the traditional British style.

C. adv.

Chiefly North American. As a whole; without making use of anything that has gone before; completely; outright.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb]

fullyeOE

allesOE

fullOE

rightc1175

everydealc1300

wholec1300

whollya1325

finelyc1330

fairly1340

completec1374

gainlya1375

clearly1377

freelya1393

plaina1393

entire?a1400

entirelyc1400

oddlyc1400

sufficientlyc1440

expressc1475

totally1509

completely1526

finec1530

exactly?1531

sincerely1576

start1599

fillingly1611

circularly1618

solid1651

out-over1745

rotundly1775

roundedly?1802

whole hog1840

clear-away1883

whole cloth1917

righteous1948

1917 Jrnl. Nervous & Mental Dis. 45 474 The..active repudiation of scarecrow doctrines never taught but made up whole cloth out of the preconceived notions of the uninformed.

1938 Rotarian June 24/2 The [Japanese] Government has recently ordered both the taxi-dance hall and the cheap cabaret abolished, both of which..had been copied whole cloth from American movies.

1998 Federal EEO Advisor (Nexis) Dec. FLRA adopted whole cloth the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's position that compensatory damages must be based on objective evidence.

2014 K. Westaway Profit & Purpose p. xiii The problem of the sex trade is horribly complex and tackling it whole cloth would have been overwhelming.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	whole cloth
释义	whole clothn.adj.adv. Brit. /ˌhəʊl ˈklɒθ/, /ˈhəʊl klɒθ/, U.S. /ˈhoʊl ˈklɔθ/, /ˈhoʊl ˈklɑθ/ Forms: see whole adj., n., and adv. and cloth n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: whole adj., cloth n. Etymology: < whole adj. + cloth n. Compare broadcloth n., long cloth n. A. n. 1. Cloth of the full size as manufactured, as distinguished from a piece cut off for a garment or other item. Also as a count noun: a piece of cloth of this type. Now esp. with reference to quilting. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun] > piece of > of specific size whole cloth1402 pattern1695 tan1876 1402 in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1932) 8 262 (MED) I pray ȝow þat ȝe wyl..sende me worde wat prys of an hol cloþ of blak veluet. 1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §56. m. 3 Hole clothes, called brode clothes. a1500 Tracts Eng. Weights & Meas. 16 in Camden Misc. (1929) XV (MED) A Pak of Clothe. Also clothe is sold by numbyr, for x hole clothys make a pak; so that euery hole cloth or euery dossynne be hole in lengthe, xxiiij yerdes. 1525 Wydow Edyth in W. C. Hazlitt Shakespeare Jest-bks. (1864) 58 Might I be so bolde as of your hole cloth To desire you for to deliuer vnto me As much as wyll suffyse..To make a large Gowne and a Kyrtell. 1605 Proclam. James I 16 Sept. For the measuring, searching and sealing of euery whole Cloth, one halfe peny to the Alnager for his fee. 1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter vii. 217 The Soveraign's Mother had allowed her one whole Cloth, and a double proportion of Scarlet. 1724 Act 11 Geo. I c. 24 §1 Every Woollen Broad Cloth,..whether..called an End or Half Cloth, or a Long or Whole Cloth. 1781 E. Ledwich in C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibern. II. ix. 383 The rich had also their whole cloth, extremely fine, that had passed the alnage. 1847 Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star 1 Jan. 16 A tailor may cut a garment out of whole cloth without difficulty. 1899 P. L. Ford Janice Meredith li. 404 From stores in the attic the mother produced pieces of whole cloth. 1920 Fibre & Fabric 14 Feb. 6/3 Goods shown consisted of serges, velours, broadcloths, whole cloths, tricotines and coatings. 1995 J. Forrest & D. Blincoe Nat. Hist. Quilt i. 22 The ‘pattern’ is the entire face of a piece of whole cloth. 2001 K. Guerrier Encycl. Quilting & Patchwork Techniques 9/2 The top layer of the quilt which can be patchwork, appliqué or wholecloth. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. Esp. in (made, cut, manufactured, etc.) out of (the) whole cloth. a. Used in various senses reflecting the nature of whole cloth, such as its size, its uncut and unworked state when manufactured, or the fact that it is composed of a single material unmixed with other kinds of cloth. In later use frequently with reference to something made or undertaken without relying on previous work. ΚΠ 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes (new ed.) ii. f. xcij He played the courtyer all togyther, and fashyoned hymselfe wholly to the kynges delyghtes. He ruffled it out in the whole clothe wyth a myghtye rable of digised ruffianes at his tayle. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 46 Two or three thousand pound... When hee hath it all in his handes, for a month or two he reuels it, and cuts it out in the whole cloth. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman i. 5 The valiant Souldier..measureth out of the whole cloath his Honour with his sword. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 333 They cut it out of the whole cloth, and divide their acres peece-meale into shreds. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. vi. 177 This rent (not in the seam but whole cloth) betwixt these Churches. 1677 W. Hubbard Pres. State New-Eng. ii. 1 The List or Border here being known to be more worth then the whole Cloth; That whole Tract of Land, being of little worth, unless it were for the Borders thereof upon the Sea-coast. 1749 E. Turrell Life B. Colman iv. 29 An itinerant, powerful, illiterate Preacher..cut Mr. Colman out of the whole Cloth, as he used pleasantly to relate it, and left him but three Votes. 1762 T. Smollett et al. tr. Voltaire Wks. XIII. 169 He enjoys the honour of the priesthood, while he laughs at the whole cloth. 1838 Musical Rev. 27 Oct. 244/1 Although three fourths of it [sc. a hypothetical oratorio] be taken in ‘whole cloth’ from other authors, and the remaining part made up of patch-work, who will know it? 1899 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 612 Fortunately, we have not to begin our experiments out of whole cloth. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill xii. 270 That Eton captain is cut out of whole cloth; no shoddy there. 1966 L. Pitt Decline of Californios (1998) i. 6 Local leaders had to manufacture civil government from the whole cloth, with little formal preparation. 2012 P. Valliere Conciliarism ii. 83 The orthodox consensus..was not cut from whole cloth by Christian intellectuals. b. colloquial (chiefly North American). Used to indicate that a statement, report, story, etc., is wholly false, with no basis in fact or reality. Cf. fabricate v. 2, to make up 6c at make v.¹ Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] invention1526 forgery1582 fiction1605 romance1668 fabrication1790 whole cloth1823 concoction1831 fictionizing1938 1823 Christian Reg. (Boston) 28 Feb. 114/3 All this and much more was made up out of the whole cloth, and circulated as so much gospel by those who knew it was all false. 1868 Amer. Entomologist 1 245/1 Paragraphs like this..are sheer humbug and delusion, manufactured out of whole cloth. 1910 McClure's Mag. May 107/2 This despatch was a ‘fake’ from whole cloth. 1950 ‘J. Tey’ To love & be Wise x. 119 He'll make up a story out of whole cloth if he doesn't get an interview. 2001 Tin House Mag. Summer 185 Our theory is that Dunand himself created the Chicken Marengo legend out of whole cloth, as a foil to his own embarrassment at Austerlitz. B. adj. 1. Chiefly North American. Of a statement, report, story, etc.: that is ‘made out of whole cloth’ (see sense A. 2); totally fabricated; unfounded. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective] > entirely whole cloth1831 1831 Boston Masonic Mirror 19 Feb. 266/2 This noted paper, that has since been proved a whole-cloth falsehood. 1850 Water-cure Jrnl. 9 82/1 Those who are accustomed to swallow huge doses of ‘potecary’ poisons, under the agreeable delusion that they are medicines, may be willing to gulp down this whole-cloth fabrication with a vague idea that there may be some truth in it. 1882 Testimony in Sessinghaus vs. Frost, 3rd Congress. District Missouri 47th Congr., 1st Sess.: U.S. House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 27 III. 2128 The fact of the matter is that we have no whole-cloth stories on our side of the house; we have no imaginations which carry us out of the realms of truth and evidence. 1971 Washington Post 22 Sept. b10/3 Conceivably he might consider this telling a partial truth, rather than a whole cloth lie. 2004 J. McCourt Queer Street xi. 180 In the manner of the genre known as medieval forgery, replete with direct altered borrowings, reflection of sources, doubtful attributions and whole cloth inventions. 2. Esp. of a quilt: made from (a length or lengths of) whole cloth rather than from patchwork. ΚΠ 1956 L. K. Haas & R. B. Haas Quilts, Counterpanes & Related Printed Fabrics 11 Two aristocratic types of quilts which imply either the ability to buy imported material or the leisure to execute a complex design are the whole-cloth quilt and the all white quilt. 1989 Country Premier Issue 37/2 Arlene Statz decorated her whole-cloth pillow with fine quilting worked with burgundy thread. 1990 USA Today (Nexis) 12 Nov. 4 b The earliest quilts were whole-cloth (not patched), often of linsey-woolsey—cotton or linen woven with wool. 2004 Quilter's Newsletter Mag. July 90/1 With her love for hand quilting, Sandie focused on stitching award-winning whole-cloth quilts in the traditional British style. C. adv. Chiefly North American. As a whole; without making use of anything that has gone before; completely; outright. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] fullyeOE allesOE fullOE rightc1175 everydealc1300 wholec1300 whollya1325 finelyc1330 fairly1340 completec1374 gainlya1375 clearly1377 freelya1393 plaina1393 entire?a1400 entirelyc1400 oddlyc1400 sufficientlyc1440 expressc1475 totally1509 completely1526 finec1530 exactly?1531 sincerely1576 start1599 fillingly1611 circularly1618 solid1651 out-over1745 rotundly1775 roundedly?1802 whole hog1840 clear-away1883 whole cloth1917 righteous1948 1917 Jrnl. Nervous & Mental Dis. 45 474 The..active repudiation of scarecrow doctrines never taught but made up whole cloth out of the preconceived notions of the uninformed. 1938 Rotarian June 24/2 The [Japanese] Government has recently ordered both the taxi-dance hall and the cheap cabaret abolished, both of which..had been copied whole cloth from American movies. 1998 Federal EEO Advisor (Nexis) Dec. FLRA adopted whole cloth the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's position that compensatory damages must be based on objective evidence. 2014 K. Westaway Profit & Purpose p. xiii The problem of the sex trade is horribly complex and tackling it whole cloth would have been overwhelming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.adv.1402
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