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parsimonious, penurious, penny-pinching, cheese-paring,
Scrooge-like, skinflinty, Colloq near, Brit mingy: He's so
close he charges his own mother rent. 19 secluded, concealed,
shut up or away, hidden: The fugitives decided to lie close
till nightfall.
--adv. 20 near, in the neighbourhood (of), not far (from),
adjacent (to); alongside; at hand, nearby, close by: The murder
took place close to my house. I'm frightened, so please stay
close by. 21 close to or on or onto. nearly, almost, about,
practically, approximately, nigh unto, approaching: For close
to two thousand years the site lay untouched.
--n. 22 end, termination, conclusion, finish, completion,
cessation; culmination: By the close of trading, share prices
had risen again.
cloth n. 1 fabric, material, textile, Chiefly Brit stuff: The
curtains are made of cloth, not plastic. 2 the cloth. the
clergy, the (religious) ministry, the priesthood: He is a man
of the cloth.
clothe v. 1 dress, attire, garb, apparel, outfit, fit out or up,
accoutre or US also accouter, Brit kit out or up, Colloq tog up
or out: He earns barely enough to clothe and feed his family.
2 endow, invest, caparison, endue: They tried to clothe their
transactions with the raiment of honesty.
clothes n.pl. clothing, apparel, attire, wear, dress, garments,
raiment, wardrobe, outfit, ensemble, vestment(s), Old-fashioned
duds, Colloq togs, gear, get-up Slang glad rags, Brit clobber;
Slang US (set of) threads: Put on some old clothes and make
yourself comfortable.
clown n. 1 jester, fool, zany, comic, comedian, funny man: Of all
the performers at the circus, I like the clowns best. 2
buffoon, boor, rustic, yahoo, oaf, lout, clod, dolt, bumpkin,
clodhopper, provincial, peasant, yokel, Colloq lummox; Slang
chiefly US jerk; Old-fashioned galoot or galloot; Slang chiefly
US and Canadian hick: That's the kind of language we expect to
hear only from the most ignorant clowns.
--v. 3 Often, clown around or about. fool (around), play the