piece of cloth
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- noun
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trozo de tela
- He placed the delicate piece of cloth on the table to show everyone.
- small pieces of cloth
- tie a piece of cloth
So the form of the tie is the structure of this piece of cloth, right?
- So the form of the tie is the structure of this piece of cloth, right?
- And you're choosing the like a piece of cloth.
- It's a it's a piece of cloth, but it's a very nice premium piece of cloth.
Examples
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She bought a small piece of cloth to use for her sewing project.
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Honey, get yourself a piece of cloth and wrap it round you some kind of way.
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I need two pieces of cloth for the outside.
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Show us what is on that piece of cloth there.
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It's only a piece of cloth.
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You must immediately run out and get yourself a still larger piece of cloth.
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The women were wearing long white dresses with red pieces of cloth covering their heads.
Fiction book (1991) -
Carlie had tied a piece of cloth over the hole in the screen to keep the flies out.
Fiction book (1991) -
"Marit dipped a corner of a piece of cloth into the bowl of milk on the table beside her."
Fiction book (2002) -
Blackened, half-burned, in tatters, it was a piece of cloth with a red horse rearing on a gold-brown field.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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Cloth made by weaving or knitting fibers used for clothes and curtains
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A piece of material made by joining threads together and used for making clothes or for cleaning
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A part of cloth cut to use for clothes or crafts
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A small piece of cloth to show color, feel, or pattern before you buy it
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Morphology
The meaning 'a separate part or section of fabric' is directly and literally composed from 'piece' (a portion) + 'of' (partitive/genitive marker) + 'cloth' (fabric), so the sense follows straightforward noun phrase composition. This is a common, cross-linguistic partitive construction and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The noun piece of cloth comes from the simple image of cutting a small piece from a larger cloth. Imagine tearing a square from a big sheet to use as a bandage. That's why it means 'a separate part of fabric' today.