clothes
garments for the body; articles of dress; wearing apparel.
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How to use clothes in a sentence
Growing up as a teen in the 1960s, she had yearned to wear the same clothes her girlfriends wore.
Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.
BEIRUT—It is December, but Sabrine Omar is still wearing her summer clothes.
A Sunni-Shia Love Story Imperiled by al Qaeda | Ruth Michaelson | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThey dye their hair and alter their clothes, but not enough to attract attention from authorities.
North Korea’s Secret Movie Bootleggers: How Western Films Make It Into the Hermit Kingdom | Lizzie Crocker | December 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn St. Louis, I believe, for a change of clothes and to go to a nightclub.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
At this same time they seized in Nangasaqui a servant of the father provincial, Matheo Couros, who was washing his clothes.
Not a dollar did he possess—not even did he have a suit of clothes any more, and wore every day his corduroys.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxFor six days Mamma wept at intervals, and showed the woman in black all Punch's clothes—a liberty which Punch resented.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingLittle boys when decking themselves out with tall hat and monstrously big clothes seem to be trying to put on an alarming aspect.
Children's Ways | James SullyThe door opened and a plain clothes detective entered the office.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol | William J. Locke
British Dictionary definitions for clothes
/ (kləʊðz) /
articles of dress
(as modifier): clothes brush Related adjective: vestiary
mainly British short for bedclothes
Origin of clothes
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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