▪ I. clouted, ppl. a.1
(ˈklaʊtɪd)
Also 4 clutte.
[f. clout v. + -ed.]
1. Mended with a patch or patches, patched.
| c 1000 Heptateuch Josh. ix. 5 Gecl{uacu}tode bytta. c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 40 With rent cokrez at þe kne & his clutte trasches. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 55 He caste on his cloþes I-clouted and I-hole. 1596 Bell Surv. Popery iii. x. 476 Like unto a clowted beggars cloake. 1611 Bible Josh. ix. 5 Old shooes and clowted vpon their feet. 1651 Cleveland Poems 33 A league with mouldy bread, and clouted shoos. 1837 Howitt Rur. Life iii. ii. (1862) 210 Clouted shoes, threadbare and patched clothes. |
2. Furnished or protected with an iron clout or clouts; studded with clout-nails. Cf. clout-shoe.
| c 1394 [see clout v. 3]. 1622 F. Markham Bk. War iii. iv. §6 The axle trees..well clouted. [See examples under clout-shoe.] |
3. fig. Put together clumsily, patched up, botched. Passing into an expression of depreciation.
| c 1380 Wyclif Serm. lxxxvii, in Sel. Wks. I. 302 So stondiþ þer cloutid reule, boþe in good and in yvel. 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 485 b, Your illfavouredly patcht Reasons..and those your clouted conclusions. 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Isl. i. xviii, If fond Bavius vent his clouted song. 1642 Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 142 A Pestilence to all government, a traiterous and a clouted Anarchy. 1665 J. Spencer Prophecies 14 When subtil men shall see us..give reverence to every vain person and clouted rhime. |
4. Covered with, or wrapped in, a clout or cloth.
| 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Mar. 50 Thilke same vnhappie Ewe, Whose clouted legge her hurt doth shewe. 1880 Blackmore M. Anerley xl, Here he stopped short..and turned his clouted neck. |
▪ II. clouted, ppl. a.2
(ˈklaʊtɪd)
Also 6–7 clowted, -yd, 7 clawted.
[f. clout n.2; or perh. f. a vb. clout = clot: cf. clotted.]
Said of the cream obtained by ‘scalding’ or heating milk, which makes it thick or clotted.
| 1542 Borde Dyetary xii. (1870) 267 Clowtyd crayme and rawe crayme put together. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 99 She would..giue hem Curds and clouted Creame. 1586 Cogan Haven Health (1636) 179 Clouted Creame, which is made by setting the milke ouer an easie fire, untill it come to a thicke head. 1637 B. Jonson Sad Sheph. i. vi, Fall to your cheese-cakes, curdes, and clawted creame. 1784 Twamley Dairying 112 Butter that was made of heated, or clouted Cream. 1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 215. |