claes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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She will never need bite o' meat nor thread o' claes for ever and ever mair.'
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The mother wi' her needle an' her shears, Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new; The father mixes a' wi' admonition due.
From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin
Craft maun hae claes, but truth gaes naked.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
The Tamsens are vera poor, and the laddie is the warst-dressed lad i’ the village, and he is to go and get a nice suit o’ claes for himsel’ wi’ it.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
If she's no, why does she wear servants' claes?
From Jan and Her Job by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker
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