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clothes

[ klohz, klohthz ]

plural noun

  1. garments for the body; articles of dress; wearing apparel.

    Synonyms: garb, costume, raiment, attire, clothing



clothes

/ kləʊðz /

plural noun

    1. articles of dress
    2. ( as modifier ) vestiary

      clothes brush

  1. short for bedclothes


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Word History and Origins

Origin of clothes1

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English clāthas, plural of clāth cloth

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Word History and Origins

Origin of clothes1

Old English clāthas, plural of clāth cloth

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Example Sentences

Growing up as a teen in the 1960s, she had yearned to wear the same clothes her girlfriends wore.

Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.

BEIRUT—It is December, but Sabrine Omar is still wearing her summer clothes.

They dye their hair and alter their clothes, but not enough to attract attention from authorities.

In St. Louis, I believe, for a change of clothes and to go to a nightclub.

At this same time they seized in Nangasaqui a servant of the father provincial, Matheo Couros, who was washing his clothes.

Not a dollar did he possess—not even did he have a suit of clothes any more, and wore every day his corduroys.

For six days Mamma wept at intervals, and showed the woman in black all Punch's clothes—a liberty which Punch resented.

Little boys when decking themselves out with tall hat and monstrously big clothes seem to be trying to put on an alarming aspect.

The door opened and a plain clothes detective entered the office.

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