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clothes
/ kləʊðz /
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of clothes1
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Example Sentences
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.
They dye their hair and alter their clothes, but not enough to attract attention from authorities.
In St. Louis, I believe, for a change of clothes and to go to a nightclub.
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.
For six days Mamma wept at intervals, and showed the woman in black all Punch's clothes—a liberty which Punch resented.
Little boys when decking themselves out with tall hat and monstrously big clothes seem to be trying to put on an alarming aspect.
The door opened and a plain clothes detective entered the office.
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How Do You Spell Clothes?
Spelling tips for clothes
The word clothes is hard to spell for two reasons. First, it sounds like the verb close, but it is spelled differently. Also, the word clothes is different from the plural of cloth (cloths), but the two are easily confused for one another.
How to spell clothes: You aren’t finished putting on clothes until you’ve tied Each Shoe (-es). Remembering that you need Each Shoe, or -es, at the end to finish getting dressed can help you spell clothes correctly.
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