clothes

[ klohz, klohthz ]

/ kloʊz, kloʊðz /

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plural noun

garments for the body; articles of dress; wearing apparel.

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1 clothing, attire, raiment, costume, garb; vestments, habiliments.

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Origin of clothes

before 900; Middle English; Old English clāthas, plural of clāthcloth

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH clothes

1. cloth, clothe, clothes 2. close, clothes , cloze

Words nearby clothes

cloth, clothbound, cloth-cap, clothe, cloth-eared, clothes, clothesbasket, clotheshorse, clothesline, clothes moth, clothes-peg

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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.
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Her daughter, Elaina, 24, a trained costume designer and makeup artist, helps out by sewing clothes.
Inside A Finishing School for Transwomen|Sharon Adarlo|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
BEIRUT—It is December, but Sabrine Omar is still wearing her summer clothes.
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They dye their hair and alter their clothes, but not enough to attract attention from authorities.
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In St. Louis, I believe, for a change of clothes and to go to a nightclub.
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At this same time they seized in Nangasaqui a servant of the father provincial, Matheo Couros, who was washing his clothes.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624|Various
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 Micheaux
For 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 Kipling
Little 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 Sully
The door opened and a plain clothes detective entered the office.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke

British Dictionary definitions for clothes

clothes

/ (kləʊðz) /

pl n

articles of dress
(as modifier)clothes brush Related adjective: vestiary

mainly British short for bedclothes

Word Origin for clothes

Old English clāthas, plural of clāth cloth

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