Clothing
['kləʊðɪŋ] or ['kloðɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clothe
(n.) Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
(n.) The art of process of making cloth.
(n.) A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
(n.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card.
Typist: Sean
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Garments, CLOTHES.
Inputed by Huntington
Examples
- General Scott had been unable to get clothing for the troops from the North. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We seem to want the oldest and simplest human clothing where the clothing of the earth is so primitive. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The men had no clothing but what they had volunteered in, and much of this was so worn that it would hardly stay on. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Approaching nearer and nearer, the bargeman became Bradley Headstone, in rough water-side second-hand clothing. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I took off my trousers and wrung them too, then my shirt and under clothing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The women, like his own wife, who had sewed by day and night, were saved their strength and vision, and the slavery of the clothing factories, notorious in those days, was inestimably lightened. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Their clothing, therefore, had commonly been much more expensive. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His clothing was worn down to the rusty hue of the hat in the entry, but though he looked shabby he did not look mean. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- For the most part, this also applies to the garment trade and its closely allied clothing industries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was a close and stifling little shop; full of all sorts of clothing, made and unmade, including one window full of beaver-hats and bonnets. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars--they have two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tom had with him quite a sizable trunk full of clothing, as had most others of them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Checker: Luther