Covering designed to be worn on a person's body

Usage examples of clothing.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, but before it could arrive, Jefferson had concluded that it must be some article of home-produced clothing, and so in reply to Adams wrote at length about the virtues of the spinning jenny and loom, and of the thriftiness of household manufactures.

We are naturally shocked at the clothing of a grave subject in anapestic metre, or the treatment of a long and lofty theme in short, choppy lines.

As she lumbered clumsily toward Kethry, the sorceress got a whiff of an unpleasant reekhalf unwashed clothing and stale sweat, half an animallike musk.

But the heavy winter clothing she was wearing could have easily concealed a small handgun, and Anse was beginning to suspect that Noelle Murphy was someone who was often full of surprises.

Silver rims or lines covered their joint areas on the clothing, like the shoulders and elbows, and even covering their rib, waist, shoulder, and neck area.

They stayed there most of the day, catching up on food and sleep and being fitted with Argentian clothing.

Smiling faces on folks laden with armsful of clothing, toiletries and treats, singing the praises of Bianca Germayne, played very well, especially when counterpointed against local government officials saying that everyone would have to tighten their belts and pull together until the crisis passed.

The duke has sworn that any who asks to be returned to Earth will be returned there on the next available car and given clothing and money.

Baba fully agreed that it would be difficult to discern his true identity, for, surrounded by so many with virtually identical beards and clothing, he, too, found it nearly impossible to recognize those among the thieves whom he had so recently learned to know as individuals.

His only clothing was a hide loincloth and a brace of belts cinched tight over his stomach.

And when Joe Granado applied the benzidine test to the clothing, the results were uniformly negative.

Many of the spots on the clothing the TV crew had found gave a positive benzidine reaction, indicating blood, but Granado was unable to determine whether it was animal or human.

Under his clothing Bergamo was pale his body not nearly as wrinkled as his face, and in pretty good shape.

From the rest of the lamplit gloom his eyes picked out a pallet on the groundsheet of the tent, hooks on the central pole of the tent for clothing and weapons, a chest with her name and rank stenciled on it in the blockier form of Nantukhtar writing.

During the hot stage, the extra clothing and the bottles of hot water should be gradually removed and cold drinks taken instead of warm.