cloam

/ kləʊm /

adjective

1. made of clay or earthenware

noun

1. clay or earthenware pots, dishes, etc, collectively

Word History and Origins

Origin of cloam¹

Old English clām mud

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.

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

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

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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.

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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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