(historical) A historic building in European marketplaces, where stallholders sold cloth, leather, and exotic imports such as silks and spices.

plural of cloth hall

cloth used to construct a sunshade

Niditinea fuscella (brown-dotted clothes moth) / Tinea pellionella (case-bearing clothes moth) / Tineola bisselliella (common clothes moth, webbing clothes moth)

(UK, dated, informal, derogatory) A person who cannot hear clearly or who fails to pay attention to what is said. Its origin is in the wool and cotton mills of Northern England where the noise of the machinery and build-up of cotton dust made it difficult to hear people speaking. The earliest example in print is

Not hearing clearly. / Failing to pay attention.

(archaic) Garments in which to bury the dead.

Alternative spelling of breechcloth

A fabric traditionally prepared in many of the Pacific islands from the inner bark of the mulberry, etc.

plural of clothes drier