Crossword-Solution: CLOUTS 6 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Much people was gathered about the gate to see the merchants enter with banners displayed; and Ralph deemed many of the folk fair, such as were goodly clad; for many had but foul clouts to cover their nakedness, and seemed needy and hunger-pinched.

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs; and, since the religion of one seems madness unto another, to afford an account or rational of old rites requires no rigid reader.

There were nearly twenty of them, men and women, and amongst the rest was a man standing naked in a tub of water with two women stroking him down with clouts.

After all, Philip proved to be, what the sailors called him, only "a Colossus stuffed with clouts." The English sailors followed up their advantage.

Latt un goo, missus, latt un goo, zay I for wan, and old Davy wash his clouts for un.' And this discourse of Betty's tended more than my mother's prayers, I fear, to keep me from going.