Meanings (ES + gloss)
tela
A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
In trumpets for assisting the hearing, all reverbation of the trumpet must be avoided. It must be made thick, of the least elastic materials, and covered with cloth externally.
“It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”
paño • pedazo de tela • trapo • trozo de tela
A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
The first room the people enter was formerly the Presence Chamber, which is hung completely with black, and at the r-end a cloth of estate, with a chair of estate standing upon the…
The stole is a long scarf-like cloth that hangs around the neck, over the shoulders and down the front of bishops and priests [generally, two-four inches across].
aire • apariencia • facha • fachada
Appearance; seeming.
Like all cultural realities, contemporary modernism is packed with its own myths, its own largely unrecognized metaphors, its own poetics literally perceived -- or should we say, "…
Unbelievably, he smiled through his cracked and bleeding lips. A horrible nightmare cloaked in the cloth of good.
ajuar • atavío • atuendo • indumentaria • traje
A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
But he could not come in the white cloth of celebration to a burial service, and he could hardly come in the cloth of mourning to celebrate his two decades on the stool.
Wearing the cloth of kings would seem to be an appropriate symbol.
Phrases
Aida clothAmerican clothGreenclothHenrietta clothItalian clothJ-clothJanus clothThibet clothVenetian clothairplane clothaltar clothaltar-clothback-clothback-cloth starbackclothbarkclothbarmclothbolting clothbook-clothbrattice clothbreech-clothbreechclothbroadclothcereclothcharclothcheeseclothchinclothclot shotcloth capcloth hallcloth nappycloth of goldcloth of tissuecloth padcloth-earedcloth-earsclothbackclothboundclothedclothhead