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Shakespeare uses this word twice, as follows:
"I thought he slept, and put
My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness
Answer'd my steps too loud." (Cymbeline, 4,2)
"Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon;
For they are thrifty honest men, and such
As would, but that they dare not, take our parts" (2 Henry VI, 4,2)
In both of these quotations he uses the word about shoes or boots which are noisy or hard-wearing; a working-man's boots.
It is therefore unlikely to be related to the noun "clout" which means a cloth: "About her head a clout where late the diadem stood" (Hamlet), "Romeo's a dish-clout compared to him" (Romeo and Juliet), "I' the clout! I' the clout!" (King Lear--Lear is talking about the custom of using a flag or cloth as an Archery target.)
More likely it is related to the modern term a "clout-nail", a short, flat-headed nail now used for attaching metal to wood (as in tin roofing, for example, and so often called a roofing nail). Similar nails were used by cobblers to attach soles to shoes, and are better known as "hobnails"
So, "clouted brogues" are basically "hobnailed boots".
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