Contextualizebeta

plainclothed

adj

Etymology

From plain + clothed.

  1. derived from *gley-✻ — “to adhere to, stick”
  2. inherited from *klaiþōną✻ — “to clothe”
  3. inherited from *clāþian✻ — “to clothe”
  4. inherited from clothen
  5. suffixed as clothed — “clothe + ed”
  6. compounded as plainclothed — “plain + clothed”

Definitions

  1. plainclothes

    plainclothes; wearing ordinary clothes instead of a uniform in order to avoid detection.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for plainclothed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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