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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOTHES, n. plu. Of cloth; pronounced cloze.
1. Garments for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; a general term for whatever covering is worn, or made to be worn, for decency or comfort.
If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. Mark 5.
2. The covering of a bed; bed-clothes.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: clothing in general; "she was refined in her choice of apparel"; "he always bought his clothes at the same store"; "fastidious about his dress" [syn: apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes]

Merriam Webster's

noun plural Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cl?thas, plural of cl?th Date: before 12th century 1. clothing 2. bedclothes 3. all the cloth articles of personal and household use that can be washed

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. 1 garments worn to cover the body and limbs. 2 bedclothes. Phrases and idioms: clothes-horse 1 a frame for airing washed clothes. 2 colloq. an affectedly fashionable person. clothes-line a rope or wire etc. on which washed clothes are hung to dry. clothes-moth any moth of the family Tineidae, with a larva destructive to wool, fur, etc. clothes-peg Brit. a clip or forked device for securing clothes to a clothes-line. clothes-pin US a clothes-peg. Etymology: OE clathas pl. of clath CLOTH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cloth Cloth (?; 115), n.; pl. Cloths (#; 115), except in the sense of garments, when it is Clothes (kl[=o]thz or kl[=o]z). [OE. clath cloth, AS. cl[=a][thorn] cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. kl[ae][eth]i, Dan. kl[ae]de, cloth, Sw. kl["a]de, G. kleid garment, dress.] 1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others. 2. The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. --Quarles. 3. The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth? --Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. --I. Taylor. Body cloth. See under Body. Cloth of gold, a fabric woven wholly or partially of threads of gold. Cloth measure, the measure of length and surface by which cloth is measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clothes Clothes (? or ?; 277), n. pl. [From Cloth.] 1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. --Shak. If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. --Mark. v. 28. 2. The covering of a bed; bedclothes. She turned each way her frighted head, Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes. --Prior. Body clothes. See under Body. Clothes moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth of the genus Tinea. The most common species (T. flavifrontella)is yellowish white. The larv[ae] eat woolen goods, furs, feathers, etc. They live in tubular cases made of the material upon which they feed, fastened together with silk. Syn: Garments; dress; clothing; apparel; attire; vesture; raiment; garb; costume; habit; habiliments.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Clothes are the things that people wear, such as shirts, coats, trousers, and dresses. Moira walked upstairs to change her clothes... He dressed quickly in casual clothes. N-PLURAL see also plain-clothes

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. pl. Garments, raiment, apparel, attire, vesture, vestments, dress, clothing, garb, costume, habiliments, habits, wearing apparel, things (colloq.).

Moby Thesaurus

afghan, apparel, array, attire, bed linen, bedclothes, bedcover, bedding, bedizenment, bedsheet, bedspread, blanket, buffalo robe, case, clobber, clothing, comfort, comforter, contour sheet, costume, counterpane, cover, coverlet, coverlid, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, eiderdown, ensemble, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fitted sheet, garb, garments, gear, getup, guise, habiliment, habiliments, habit, investiture, investment, lap robe, linen, outfit, patchwork quilt, pillow slip, pillowcase, quilt, rags, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, robes, rug, sheet, sheeting, slip, sportswear, spread, style, things, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vestments, vesture, wardrobe, wear, wearing apparel