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clothes
[klohz, klohth
z] 
Synonyms:
1. clothing, attire, raiment, costume, garb; vestments, habiliments.
1. clothing, attire, raiment, costume, garb; vestments, habiliments.
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. |
Synonyms:
1. robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.
1. robe, garb, array, accouter, bedeck.
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| clothe (klōth) tr.v. clothed or clad (klād), cloth·ing, clothes
[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.
[Middle English, from Old English clāthas, pl. of clāth, cloth.] |
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Clothes
Clothes\ (? or ?; 277), n. pl. [From Cloth.]1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. --Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. --Mark. v. 28. 2. The covering of a bed; bedclothes. She turned each way her frighted head, Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes. --Prior. Body clothes. See under Body. Clothes moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth of the genus Tinea. The most common species (T. flavifrontella)is yellowish white. The larv[ae] eat woolen goods, furs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk. Syn: Garments; dress; clothing; apparel; attire; vesture; raiment; garb; costume; habit; habiliments.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : clothes
Spanish:
ropa,
German:
die Kleider (pl.),
Japanese:
衣服
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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