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- noun Plural form of
clootie .
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Examples
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In Ireland, women still visit holy wells to make petitions for healing by ripping strips from their skirts and tying these clooties to the surrounding trees where they wave in the wind sending their prayers out into the universe like so many Buddhist prayer flags.
Donna Henes: Connecting To The World Wide Web Of Life Donna Henes 2011
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In Ireland, women still visit holy wells to make petitions for healing by ripping strips from their skirts and tying these clooties to the surrounding trees where they wave in the wind sending their prayers out into the universe like so many Buddhist prayer flags.
Donna Henes: Connecting To The World Wide Web Of Life Donna Henes 2011
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Many of the early customs honoring her such as tying clooties cloth to trees that are near holy wells survive until today.
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-- I s 'fin' some clooties, "she added, turning to Malcolm," gien I sud rive the tail frae my best Sunday sark. "
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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