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Vinony

clothes

noun

  1. clothing; things people wear
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Pronunciation: /kləʊ(ð)z/ / /kloʊ(ð)z/ / /klo(ð)z/ / /kləʊðz/ / /kloʊðz/

noun

Etymology: From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.

  1. Items of clothing; apparel.

    “suit of clothes.”

    “Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.”

  2. plural of cloth.
  3. The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

    “She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.”

  4. Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

verb

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of clothe