Clothes
[kləʊ(ð)z] or [kloðz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Cloth
(n. pl.) 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.
(n. pl.) The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Garments, raiment, apparel, attire, vesture, vestments, dress, clothing, garb, costume, habiliments, habits.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HABILIMENTS]
Editor: Winthrop
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing clothes soiled and torn, denotes that deceit will be practised to your harm. Beware of friendly dealings with strangers. For a woman to dream that her clothing is soiled or torn, her virtue will be dragged in the mire if she is not careful of her associates. Clean new clothes, denotes prosperity. To dream that you have plenty, or an assortment of clothes, is a doubtful omen; you may want the necessaries of life. To a young person, this dream denotes unsatisfied hopes and disappointments. See Apparel.
To see wedding clothes, signifies you will participate in pleasing works and will meet new friends. To see them soiled or in disorder, foretells you will lose close relations with some much-admired person.
Typist: Suzy
Examples
- But we shall take a shorter cut through the furze than you can go with long clothes; so we won't trouble you to wait. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He has a watch and a chain and a ring and a breast-pin and a handsome suit of clothes. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I should think from the color of his clothes that he is working in the quarries. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The old traditions of the place steal upon his memory and haunt his reveries, and then his fancy clothes all sights and sounds with the supernatural. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He had no money to pay him, and so gave him all his clothes except those he had on. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Miss Feeley must have left it on the bed, and it got caught in the clothes, and so got in my sleeve. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I found that I had my man, so I came home and changed my clothes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I beg I may hear of no such thing, said I, hastily--else, where would he go to, I wonder, without his small-clothes? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I have already told the reader, that every night, when the family were gone to bed, it was my custom to strip, and cover myself with my clothes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It's suits o' clothes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Everybody had new clothes at Christmas. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But thou hast many clothes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The clothes and food of the children are plain and simple. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I turned down the clothes'; continued Giles, rolling back the table-cloth, 'sat up in bed; and listened. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Before the half-hour was out, I had got my dry clothes on, and had lent Sergeant Cuff such change of dress as he required. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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