Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Clothes considered as a group; wearing apparel.
- noun A covering.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Garments in general; covering for the person; clothes; dress; raiment; apparel.
- noun Livery; corporation.
- noun In steam-engines, same as
cleading , 2 . - noun Sheets of leather studded with wire, used to form the cards of a carding-machine. Also called
card-clothing . - noun The making or manufacture of cloth.
- noun In saddlery, blankets of any kind used on horses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering.
- noun rare The art of process of making cloth.
- noun A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
- noun (Mach.) See Card clothing, under 3d
Card .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
clothe . - noun
Clothes ;apparel forwearing . - noun An act or instance of putting clothes on.
- noun obsolete The art of process of making
cloth . - noun A
covering of non-conducting material on the outside of aboiler , or steam chamber, to preventradiation ofheat .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the customs officer snatches a piece of my luggage, it will in general itself be luggage; if adoring groupies snatch an article of my clothing, it will be clothing; for ˜luggage™ and ˜clothing™ are mass nouns.
Tropes Bacon, John 2008
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Not necessarily, because this that we see and name "the physical body" is not the real body, any more than the clothing that covers it, is the person, although frequently we recognize acquaintances _by their clothing_.
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Note however, “weeds” as in clothing is from a different O.E. noun ....
The Volokh Conspiracy » “The Modern Practice of Making Certain Nouns into Verbs” 2010
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His taste in clothing is a bit different; he has a black denim jacket with small badges all down the arms and he has several slogan tees.
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Currently obsessed with: etsy. com, lover the label clothing and sun dresses!!
stem-d Diary Entry stem-d 2009
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Today's clothing is so uncomfortable and impractical and ugly, we can hardly feel superior to our Victorian forebearers for their taste and customs in clothing, can we?
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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Today's clothing is so uncomfortable and impractical and ugly, we can hardly feel superior to our Victorian forebearers for their taste and customs in clothing, can we?
Dressing at Home 2005
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Sometimes the look is a blast from the past, and other times the outfits are so skimpy, the term 'clothing' seems be to used loosely.
NY Daily News 2011
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Sometimes the look is a blast from the past, and other times the outfits are so skimpy, the term 'clothing' seems be to used loosely.
NY Daily News 2011
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Sometimes the look is a blast from the past, and other times the outfits are so skimpy, the term 'clothing' seems be to used loosely.
NY Daily News 2011
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