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Clothes
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example Sentences
- He attired himself with clothes even as does a husband.
- The process of washing and wringing clothes greatly needs the aid of labor-saving machines.
- Sleek shoes and running clothes that will get your heart racing.
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Related forms
half-clothed, adjective
pre·clothe, verb (used with object), pre·clothed, pre·cloth·ing.
re·clothe, verb (used with object), re·clothed or re·clad, re·cloth·ing.
un·der·clothed, adjective
well-clothed, adjective
Synonyms
1. robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.
1. robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.
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| clothes (kləʊðz) | |
| —pl n | |
| 1. | a. articles of dress |
| b. (as modifier): clothes brush Related: vestiary | |
| 2. | chiefly (Brit) short for bedclothes |
| Related: vestiary | |
| [Old English clāthas, plural of clāth | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
clothe
O.E. claþian (see cloth).
EXPANDclothes
O.E. claðas "clothes," originally pl. of clað "cloth," which acquired a new pl., cloths, 19c. to distinguish it from this word. Clothing is from c.1200; clothier is from mid-14c. Clothes-horse "upright wooden frame for hanging clothes to dry" is from 1806; figurative sense of "person whose sole
function seems to be to show off clothes" is 1850.
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