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• clothes - clothing - cloth — ◊ clothes Clothes are things you wear, such as shirts, trousers, dresses, and coats. I took off all my clothes. ◊ WARNING There is no singular form of clothes. You cannot, for example, talk about a clothe . In formal English, you can talk about a …   Useful english dictionary

• clothes — W2S2 [kləuðz, kləuz US klouðz, klouz] n [plural] [: Old English; Origin: clathas, plural of clath; CLOTH] the things that people wear to cover their body or keep warm ▪ I enjoy shopping for clothes and shoes. ▪ What sort of clothes was he wearing …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• clothes — clothes, clothing, dress, attire, apparel, raiment are comparable when they denote a person s garments considered collectively. Clothes and clothing are general words which do not necessarily suggest a wearer or personal owner but sometimes a… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• clothing — cloth‧ing [ˈkləʊðɪŋ ǁ ˈkloʊ ] noun [uncountable] clothes used especially about a particular type of clothes: • clothing manufacturers * * * clothing UK US /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/ noun [U] ► clothes in general: »The store sells women s clothing. »a… …   Financial and business terms

• clothing — clothes / clothing [n] personal attire accouterment, apparel, array, caparison, civvies*, costume, covering, drag*, drapery, dress, duds*, ensemble, equipment, finery, frippery, frock, full feather*, garb, garments, gear, get up*, habiliment,… …   New thesaurus

• clothes — / clothing [n] personal attire accouterment, apparel, array, caparison, civvies*, costume, covering, drag*, drapery, dress, duds*, ensemble, equipment, finery, frippery, frock, full feather*, garb, garments, gear, get up*, habiliment, habit, hand …   New thesaurus

• clothes — noun (plural) the things that people wear to cover their body or keep warm: I need some new clothes. | work/school clothes (=clothes suitable for work or school) USAGE NOTE: CLOTHES WORD CHOICE: clothes, clothing, piece/item of clothing, garment …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Clothing — in history Clothing refers to any covering for the human body that is worn. The wearing of clothing is exclusively a human characteristic and is a feature of nearly all human societies. The amount and type of clothing worn depends on functional… …   Wikipedia

• Clothing fetish — or garment fetish is a sexual fetish that revolves around a fixation upon a particular article or type of clothing, a collection of garments that appear as part of a fashion or uniform, or a person dressed in such a garment. The clinical… …   Wikipedia

• Clothing scam companies — are companies/gangs that purport to be collecting second hand clothes for charities or to be working for charitable causes, when they are in fact working for themselves, giving little if anything to charitable causes. Clothing Scam Companies are… …   Wikipedia

• Clothing terminology — comprises the names of individual garments and classes of garments, as well as the specialized vocabularies of the trades that have designed, manufactured, marketed and sold clothing over hundreds of years. Clothing terminology ranges from the… …   Wikipedia