DCHP-1 Online
clout Obs. 
n. a loin covering of cloth or soft leather.
See also: breechcloth
- 1824 (1955) They rose to great animation or rather fury springing up loosing & droping now & then part of their cloathing until naked to the clout when they began to dance with such vigour & spirit their bunches of Feathers & matted hair moving time, writhing & twisting themselves into such antic positions & such ferocious contortions of countinance that they perhaps fairly undo the War dances of the Iroquois. . . .
- 1824 (1955) They rose to great animation or rather fury springing up loosing & droping now & then part of their cloathing until naked to the clout when they began to dance with such vigour & spirit their bunches of Feathers & matted hair moving time, writhing & twisting themselves into such antic positions & such ferocious contortions of countinance that they perhaps fairly undo the War dances of the Iroquois. . . .