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clothes

  [klohz, klohthz]
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–plural noun
1. garments for the body; articles of dress; wearing apparel.
2. bedclothes.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE clāthas, pl. of clāth cloth

Synonyms:
1. clothing, attire, raiment, costume, garb; vestments, habiliments.
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clothe

  [klohth]
–verb (used with object), clothed or clad, cloth⋅ing.
1. to dress; attire.
2. to provide with clothing.
3. to cover with or as with clothing.
Origin:
bef. 950; ME clothen, OE clāthian, deriv. of clāth cloth

Synonyms:
1. robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.
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clothe   (klōth)   
tr.v.   clothed or clad (klād), cloth·ing, clothes

  1. To put clothes on; dress.

  2. To provide clothes for.

  3. To cover as if with clothing.


[Middle English clothen, from Old English clāthian, from clāth, cloth.]
Synonyms: These verbs mean to cover as if with clothes: trees clothed in leafy splendor; mist that cloaks the mountains; a beam draped with cobwebs; a boulder mantled with moss; snow robing fields and gardens.
clothes   (klōz, klōthz)   
pl.n.  

  1. Articles of dress; wearing apparel; garments.

  2. Bedclothes.


[Middle English, from Old English clāthas, pl. of clāth, cloth.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

clothe 
O.E. claþian (see cloth).

clothes 
O.E. claðas "clothes," originally pl. of clað "cloth," which acquired a new pl., cloths, 19c. to distinguish it from this word. Clothespin is from 1846; clothing is from c.1200; clothier is from 1362. 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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