plural noun
Etymology
Origin of underclothes
Example Sentences
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“Don’t count on your underclothes not showing, choose them so if they do, it doesn’t matter.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2016
There are underclothes, boxers, and socks hanging out of many pension windows, which gives the area a peculiar look of having a transient camp occupy permanent space.
From Slate • Jul. 31, 2015
Her shaming was loosely based on Jane Shore, the 15th-century mistress of Edward IV who, dressed only in her underclothes, did a penance walk through late medieval London.
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2015
Towels, trousers and underclothes still hang from the rafters in another house where Foday Joko lived with his wife and daughter.
From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2014
She had a horror of being found dead with mended or, worse, unmended underclothes.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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