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cloam

/ kləʊm /

adjective

  1. made of clay or earthenware
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. clay or earthenware pots, dishes, etc, collectively
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cloam1

Old English clām mud
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Example Sentences

Mrs. Cloam, you've a-been married like my poor self; and you knows what we be, and we knows what you be.

Mrs. Cloam will take care of you, and find all that is needful for a warrior's cleanup.

Let us have dinner, Mrs. Cloam, in twenty minutes, if possible.

Plenty o' gentlemen, when they see a bit o' cloam that ain't quite the same as ordinary cloam, will tell ye it's worth money.

Dine with us you shall this day, if we have to dine two hours earlier, and though Mother Cloam rage furiously.

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