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straccio — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cloth noun Woven, knitted, or felted material used for clothing, furnishing, or cleaning.
  • patch noun A piece of material used to mend or cover a hole or damaged area.
  • rag noun A worn or torn piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning.
  • swab noun A small pad of absorbent material, often on a stick, used to clean a wound, apply medicine, or collect a sample.
  • tatter noun A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
  • wretch noun A person who is very unhappy or in a pitiful, miserable condition.

Senses

straccio is used for these senses in English:

  • cloth (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
  • patch (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
  • rag A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
  • swab A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
  • tatter A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing.
  • wretch An unhappy, unfortunate, or miserable person.

cloth — full definition

  1. noun Woven, knitted, or felted material used for clothing, furnishing, or cleaning.
  2. noun A tablecloth, especially one laid out for a meal.
  3. noun The clergy or priesthood, referred to by their traditional dress.

patch — full definition

  1. noun A piece of material used to mend or cover a hole or damaged area.
  2. noun A small area distinct from its surroundings.
  3. noun In computing, a piece of code released to fix or update software.
  4. verb To mend or cover something with a patch.
  5. verb To fix or update software.

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