claes
Britishplural noun
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I never durst say onything then, but slipped awa to bed very unwillingly—just feeling as if I felt it a trouble to put aff my claes.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
At ony rate, he aye gangs aboot in plain claes.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
For there whar lassies bleach their claes, And bairnies toddle doun the braes, The merry Golfer daily plays On the Links o' Innerleven.
From Poems on Golf by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society
"Preserve us, lass, for what wad ye hae lad's claes?" said the ancient housekeeper.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
That is maistly what people wear fine claes of all kinds for.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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