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clothes

noun
/kləʊ(ð)z/UK/kloʊ(ð)z/US/klo(ð)z//kləʊðz/UK/kloʊðz/US

Etymology

From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.

  1. inherited from clāþas — “clothes”
  2. inherited from clothes

Definitions

  1. Items of clothing

    Items of clothing; apparel.

    • suit of clothes.
    • Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

  2. plural of cloth.

  3. The covering of a bed

    The covering of a bed; bedclothes.

    • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

    2. third-person singular simple present indicative of clothe

The neighborhood

Derived

bedclothes, change of clothes, clothes-bag, clothes bag, clothesbasket, clothes basket, clothesbrush, clothes-brush, clothes brush, clothescare, clothes don't make the man, clothes drier, clothes dryer, clothes free, clothes hanger, clotheshorse, clothes horse, clothes-horse, clothes iron, clothesless, clothes line, clothesline, clothes maiden, clothesmaker, clothes make the man, clothes maketh the man, clothesmaking, clothesman, clothes minded, clothes moth, clothes on one's back, clothes peg, clothespeg, clothes-peg, clothespin, clothes pole, clothes press, clothes-press, clothespress, clothesprop · +36 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at clothes. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at clothes. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at clothes

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA