clouted

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 the clouted cream of the latter, accompanied by the excellent coffee which we found at every inn throughout the county, we acknowledge it was only here that this production could be had in perfection.

So there are two or three little matters which seem to connect Tyre and its neighbourhood with the clouted cream of Devonshire.

Patched; roughly mended.

I thought he slept, and put My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness Answer'd my steps too loud.

His gown was greasier, and his cloke was meaner; His shoes were still more clouted, nor were cleaner.

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.

I bade good by to boots, and limped for months upon sloughing and clouted feet, but was happy, nevertheless.

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 .

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 blundering and trepidation as to excite the suspicions of the painter, who went straight to the town-hall, and told the story to the council.

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 partial hand of man to raise the cottage wall , or emit the generous spark?

But the others, who are in the path of the wind, they are clouted and pushed and beaten, blinded and deafened by the cyclone.