clouted

Adjective

clouted (comparative more clouted, superlative most clouted)

1. Clotted; coagulated.
   • If the praise of Herefordshire cider, and Oxford ale, deserve to be sung in Miltonic verse, the Clouted Cream of Cornwall puts in still more substantial claims to the notice of the lofty muse. Devonshire had regaled us with this delicious article, before we reached Cornwall, but as we had tasted...1802, Richard Warner, The Topographical Works: A tour through Cornwall, page 360
   • So there are two or three little matters which seem to connect Tyre and its neighbourhood with the clouted cream of Devonshire.1862, “The” Journal of the British Archaeological Association, page 17
2. Patched; roughly mended.
   • I thought he slept, and put My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness Answer'd my steps too loud.1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
   • His gown was greasier, and his cloke was meaner; His shoes were still more clouted, nor were cleaner.1782, M. Val. Martial, The Epigrams of M. Val. Martial, page 240
3. Bandaged.
   • The while, thilk same unhappy ewe (Whose clouted leg her hurt doth show) Fell headlong into a dell And there unjointed both her bones.1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calendar
   • I bade good by to boots, and limped for months upon sloughing and clouted feet, but was happy, nevertheless.1882, H.B. Norton, “An International Treaty”, in The Californian, volume 5, page 358
4. Hobnailed.
   • The vast majority of people in the east go bare-footed, and those who wear shoes certainly do not wear them clouted. During a residence of several years in India, I never saw a clouted shoe .1839, Hobart Caunter, The Poetry of the Pentateuch - Volume 2, page 530
   • A peasant who lived in a distant hamlet, and was quite a stranger in Freiburg and its vicinity, was ordered to go to that city, to a certain painter there, and give him an order to make a picture of a clouted shoe; but the man, not relishing the commission, delivered his message with so much...1854, Jane Sinnett, Byways of History, page 207
5. Beaten, pounded, or subjected to rough treatment.
   • 'For what reason,' we may imagine it to exclaim, 'am I left here in inglorious solitude, wedged in coarse marle, or kicked out of the way by every clouted peasant that crosses this path to pursue his daily labour , when many other flints , by no means so comely as myself , are selected by the...1833, Anne Manning, Village Belles, page 81
   • But the others, who are in the path of the wind, they are clouted and pushed and beaten, blinded and deafened by the cyclone.1919, Victoria Sackville-West, Heritage, page 161
6. Rough and uneven.
   • Fortunately it was covered with light scrub: otherwise I should never have got to the top, for the frozen and clouted soil was so slippery that one slid back at every step.1915, Bernard Pares, Day by Day with the Russian Army, 1914-15, page 119
   • Looking up, however, he was disappointed how much white, snow-clouted sky he could see through the rotten boards that were once a bridge.2022, Alex Kava, Fallen Creed