claes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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"Ye're baith sae rolled and smoothered up wi' claes and skins I canna tell."
From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward
She will never need bite o' meat nor thread o' claes for ever and ever mair.'
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Then he went home, and Margot said something about his Sunday claes, but James did not heed her.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
The laddie will be twice as bright, when he gets claes for his little arms and legs.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
The cotter's wife in Burns's poem who— "Wi' her needle and her sheers, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new"— deserves the title of heroine for her efforts to keep up appearances.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
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