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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clothes
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a food/medicine/clothes cupboardBritish English
▪ The medicine cupboard's in the bathroom.
a laundry/clothes basket (=for dirty clothes)
▪ Will you please put your socks in the laundry basket?
baby clothes/food
casual clothes
▪ Jean felt more comfortable in casual clothes.
clean clothes
▪ He had a shower and changed into clean clothes.
clothes basket
clothes brush
clothes hanger
clothes horse
clothes peg
comfortable clothes/shoes/boots etc
▪ You’ll need comfortable shoes for walking around the city.
designer clothes/jeans/suits etc
dirty clothes/washing/laundry
▪ She circled the bedroom, picking up dirty clothes.
dress/clothes sense (=an ability to choose clothes well)
▪ Her dress sense was faultless.
dry clothes
▪ I had no dry clothes to change into.
food/clothes/meat etc ration
▪ the weekly meat ration
▪ a coal ration of 4 kg a month
fuel/clothes/food etc rationing
▪ News of bread rationing created panic buying.
street clothes (=ordinary clothes, not a special uniform or costume)
▪ She changed into her street clothes and left the theatre.
swaddling clothes
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
civilian
▪ The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
▪ After seizing power, the soldiers changed into civilian clothes and became presidents.
▪ They found two soldiers in civilian clothes in it and a Thompson sub-machine gun.
▪ People were running around in civilian clothes, cooking steaks over barbecues.
▪ He had dressed that morning in his civilian clothes, reckoning that military uniform was unsuitable for the work of the day.
▪ Elvis Grbac was in civilian clothes.
▪ Men in civilian clothes moved up and down the steps leading into the narrow three-storey building.
▪ These articles will be her wardrobe until Thanksgiving, when she gets to go home and wear civilian clothes.
clean
▪ Then I took my bag into a loo and took everything off and changed into clean clothes.
▪ Ralph dressed carefully for the visit, in clean clothes.
▪ The first thing though was to get Nigel into some clean, dry clothes.
▪ I went home and showered and shaved and put on clean clothes.
▪ She pulled on one of the towelling robes and wandered back into the bedroom, selecting clean clothes.
▪ It is a sign that I am good. 60. Clean clothes made us respectable. 61.
▪ Besides, Ma would be glad of the clean clothes.
▪ Kat and I searched our packs for our cleanest clothes.
expensive
▪ They all wore the most expensive clothes and had beautiful, long, curly hair.
▪ They decided not to buy expensive clothes for the wedding.
▪ And she is power dressing, wearing beautifully-cut, expensive clothes.
▪ With his expensive clothes, elite education, and distinguished demeanor, he was different from the rustic and plain Avon folk.
▪ Everybody was wearing very expensive, fashionable clothes too!
▪ A tall man of about sixty, he was dressed in expensive country clothes.
▪ When he did appear, just before opening night he looked an impressive figure in his expensive clothes.
good
▪ He was in his good clothes.
▪ Alistair was just getting off the phone when I came in to change out of my good clothes.
▪ The date for the nearly new sale has been fixed as Saturday March 14 and good quality clothes are needed.
▪ The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.
▪ He considered her good but unremarkable clothes, and wondered what she did for laughs.
▪ I knew that poor people often save their best clothes, sometimes their only respectable apparel, for churchgoing.
▪ They came in their best clothes as if it were a Sunday from the days before the church was closed.
new
▪ It felt, despite the new clothes, that she hadn't quite made up her mind.
▪ Zampano is trying on his new clothes, absurdly self-involved in his new-found pinstriped elegance.
▪ Well, of course, she could get her hair cut and buy new clothes.
▪ Anyway, Ranieri never really wore his new clothes.
▪ No new clothes, no holidays, no bothering doctors whatever the pain.
▪ The new clothes became a clever foil for his old self.
▪ He had refused to buy any new clothes for the wedding but the brown suit had been brushed and pressed.
▪ Daniel removes Mordecai to rooms in Chelsea, dresses him in new clothes, and brings Mirah to her brother.
old
▪ Get the old clothes. 9.
▪ They began with nothing but the shoes they wore, the old clothes on their backs...
▪ All were in old, tattered clothes, some in outright rags; many were barefoot and hatless.
▪ Fermoyles in old clothes and sometimes just barely enough food for the week.
▪ Wear old clothes and bring a hammer.
▪ He sent his old clothes home for his brothers.
▪ A bundle of old clothes - what would gulls want with that?
▪ William Douglas gave me some old women's clothes.
plain
▪ Behind them in a doorway is a man wearing plain clothes and dark glasses.
▪ Normal stores have security people dressed in such plain clothes you wonder how they can afford to do any shopping.
▪ In the morning, she rose early and dressed in her plainest clothes, flounces and frills had no place in business.
▪ We recruit uniformed officers into plain clothes so that people like yourself, who are being eliminated, won't feel under pressure.
▪ They were in plain clothes and, in his opinion, drunk, arrogant and overpowering.
▪ Female speaker We've got extra foot patrols in uniform and plain clothes to prevent an attack and to pick up information.
▪ Mr Montesinos was escorted by agents in plain clothes into a helicopter shortly after arriving at Lima airport.
▪ In uniform and in plain clothes, roughly 50 were on different shifts asking each shopper for more information.
■ NOUN
shop
▪ There were several repercussions following my slight incident in the clothes shop.
▪ There's also a very good children's clothes shop nearby which deals in second-hand baby equipment.
▪ Most clothes shops sell nothing we can wear, and specialist shops are expensive and offer a very limited range of images.
▪ Businesses, including several clothes shops, a pub, and an estate agent, lay in tatters.
▪ In the clothes shops, shoppers receive £5 off per voucher.
▪ It was sub-Post Office, supermarket, hardware store, clothes shop, newsagent's and chemist's packed into one room.
▪ His clothes shop is allowed to put peepholes in the fitting-rooms; some have hidden microphones, too.
Shop raid: Burglars raided a Stokesley clothes shop.
■ VERB
buy
▪ You never buy me any new clothes.
▪ They decided not to buy expensive clothes for the wedding.
▪ He had refused to buy any new clothes for the wedding but the brown suit had been brushed and pressed.
▪ And they buy food and clothes and pay rent.
▪ They buy the clothes for their designs and fetching colours.
▪ It was what happened when young people earned decent wages, and had the means to buy clothes and go to discos.
▪ After the show, there was a queue to buy the clothes and last year's total was doubled.
▪ Edna stopped buying such clothes for a while.
change
▪ I took a cold shower and changed my clothes.
▪ After seizing power, the soldiers changed into civilian clothes and became presidents.
▪ Rose had changed into the Victorian clothes in the van.
▪ In less than an hour he was changing his wet clothes.
▪ While the-shore-bound sections changed into their shore clothes, Hicks busied him-self with a scrupulous cleaning of the bakery.
▪ Diana quickly appreciated that the only thing the royal family like to change is their clothes.
▪ We rushed through quick showers and changed into wrinkled civilian clothes.
dress
▪ In the morning, she rose early and dressed in her plainest clothes, flounces and frills had no place in business.
▪ Teen-age girls cut their hair and dressed in baggy clothes to be less attractive to the mysterious killer.
▪ There were people dressed in gay bright clothes walking on the promenade.
▪ In rehabilitation they saw people dressed in street clothes instead of hospital white.
▪ To blackmail a man because he likes dressing in women's clothes.
▪ Daniel removes Mordecai to rooms in Chelsea, dresses him in new clothes, and brings Mirah to her brother.
▪ When they wake they dress in the loosest clothes, skip breakfast and head for the tennis courts.
▪ He is dressed in differ-ent clothes.
keep
▪ Dress: painting smock to keep clothes clean.
▪ Q: Do you get to keep the clothes?
▪ Otherwise, everything was checked behind the bar, with a man who kept his clothes on.
▪ Do you have any tips on how I can keep my clothes looking good?
▪ I set up a sort of base here where I can slip back and keep a change of clothes and so on.
▪ I also kept their clothes and bedding clean, combed and braided their hair, served them their meals.
pull
▪ She has pulled on her clothes.
▪ He goes to getting ready for bed, pulling off his clothes.
▪ He pulls off all his clothes and slides over towards me.
▪ They lay there watching me pull on warm clothes for the trip, making me feel uneasy and a little guilty.
▪ Some one was pulling at her clothes, a hand shook her shoulder, and then a thumb rolled back her eyelid.
▪ As soon as I arrive home at night I wash off my make-up and pull on my scruffiest clothes.
▪ He pulled on his clothes and stumbled into the kitchen.
▪ Flavia pulled on the clothes she had been about to change into and ran downstairs.
put
▪ Get the old clothes. 9. Put the clothes on the scarecrow. 10.
▪ And put on some nice clothes.
▪ After 40 days she is encouraged to put aside her black clothes, but she received positive family support.
▪ As I put on my clothes, I knew they could not keep me warm enough against the freezing weather outdoors.
▪ Pat puts his work clothes aside, so he can wash them at 60 degrees.
▪ I went home and showered and shaved and put on clean clothes.
▪ If he can not put his clothes on himself, learning to get dressed is a necessary part of his rehabilitation programme.
▪ The elves put on the clothes, and then were never seen again.
remove
▪ Already distended in his excitement he had difficulty in removing his clothes.
▪ Much later, he couldn't recall exactly when he removed his clothes or when they got into bed together.
▪ He had become uncontrollable, removed his clothes and ran down the highway.
▪ This showed a girl removing her clothes in preparation for going to bed.
▪ He told me to remove my clothes one by one.
▪ Although aware he was an android, she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes.
▪ You hie yourself into your room this instant, and remove those -- clothes.
sell
▪ But a shop selling only summer-weight clothes in November looked mildly ridiculous.
▪ These old shops are still in business today, selling second-hand clothes and materials.
▪ Whitaker, 38, sells clothes at a Lakeland, Fla., shopping mall.
▪ His existence had been particularly dull, holding down brief part-time work selling clothes in Manchester's underground fashion world.
▪ Such is the force of commodity culture that a tasteful logo and unconnected image can sell clothes around the world.
▪ Each company sells clothes which have a clear identity allowing the wearer to convey a particular image to the outside world.
▪ However, it looks like Boo will not be selling clothes directly.
take
▪ He dried himself, opened the door of the large mahogany wardrobe and took out his clothes.
▪ The girl, who still attends high school in Sitka, told police Meekins took off her clothes.
▪ Just that first Botticelli moment of the first time of her taking her clothes off.
▪ Lee Ann took all her clothes off and lay down to sun herself on the flying bridge.
▪ What did they take the clothes for?
▪ He would return to his apartment, take off his clothes, and sit in a hot bath.
▪ The girls took her clothes ... Anyway, I decided to go out on my own.
▪ Then, when what you re seeing looks good, take off your clothes and look some more.
tear
▪ Everything he wore had to be thick, because he tore his clothes, destroyed them.
▪ If he had tried to tear the clothes from her, she probably wouldn't - couldn't - have stopped him.
▪ She would bite herself, bite anybody, and tear her clothes off.
▪ He looked ready to tear his clothes apart.
▪ Once the soldiers pushed a woman down on the floor in front of the partition and tore at her clothes.
throw
▪ There's a robe hanging from the back of the door. Throw me your clothes.
▪ Pushed books and papers into piles, threw discarded clothes into the bedroom.
▪ Frank pulled me upright and threw my clothes at me.
▪ Jane contemplated throwing on her clothes and leaving her refuge to climb farther up the mountainside to the caves.
▪ You see kids who just throw off their clothes, they want to break down that barrier and get natural again.
▪ He threw everything out, clothes, shoes, old wellingtons, burrowing underneath all the mess like an overgrown mole.
▪ I showered and threw some clothes on, and then took off, fleeing the premises.
wash
▪ Encourage residents to wash and iron their clothes where their eyesight and co-ordination are good.
▪ When she was pregnant, she washed clothes.
▪ You were only allowed to wash your clothes once a week.
▪ Rex, unperturbed, quickly stripped off naked to wash himself and his clothes in the deluge of fresh water.
▪ He had washed his bloodstained clothes, and the next day scrubbed blood from his trainers.
▪ He would not let her wash his work clothes.
▪ Then he calmly washed his clothes and had a bath.
▪ Even in liberated Scandinavia, it is women who feed the family, wash the clothes, and care for the children.
wear
▪ I ask why she thinks it is so much better for people to wear clothes.
▪ What, they wondered, was such a darling boy doing wearing such awful clothes?
▪ The man wore fitting and casual clothes and those of Holly were thin.
▪ They wore heavy clothes which they seldom changed.
▪ I fell asleep, crouched beside the door, still wearing my clothes.
▪ Marisa left, but seemed to return when she pleased, sometimes wearing the same clothes, in different clothes other times.
▪ What I do like about her is her confidence, the way she wears outrageous clothes.
▪ Both Heracles and Achilles wear female clothes for a time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
best dress/shoes/clothes etc
▪ Everyone was in black because their best clothes were for funerals, and everyone danced.
▪ I washed them, then dressed them in their best clothes, but never new ones.
▪ She had her best shoes on, and a new hat.
▪ She had the best dress sense of any girl in Benedict's and a passion for altering the colour of her hair.
▪ The best car, the wittiest put-down, and the best dress.
▪ The first best clothes were only for Sunday and when visitors came.
▪ The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.
▪ They would never let you in alone, even though you are wearing your best clothes.
change of clothes/underwear etc
▪ As any woman could tell you a change of clothes or hairstyle can instantly change the way people think about you.
▪ But I decided I wanted a change of clothes in the morning and my own bed that night.
▪ Clarisa passed him over to me at the window seat so she could pull out a change of clothes.
▪ Contrite, she backed off, collecting a change of clothes from her bag.
▪ Dominic could dress quickly when a change of clothes was called for.
▪ This does not necessarily mean paying out a lot of money for several totally new changes of clothes.
▪ With a change of clothes and some food, he set off in search of fools.
in plain clothes
▪ In uniform and in plain clothes, roughly 50 were on different shifts asking each shopper for more information.
▪ Large men in plain clothes and short haircuts had wanted to know his business.
▪ Mr Montesinos was escorted by agents in plain clothes into a helicopter shortly after arriving at Lima airport.
▪ They were in plain clothes and, in his opinion, drunk, arrogant and overpowering.
spare key/battery/clothes etc
▪ Carrying spare batteries could be a cheaper option to fast charging and all chargers rely on a power point anyway.
▪ Eventually, the spare key was found and they were released from the clutches of the car.
▪ I'd got no money, no night things, no spare clothes, no bank card.
▪ It may include parts of larger support weapons such as mortars, radio equipment and spare batteries.
▪ Make sure you have a supply of spare batteries too.
▪ Remember that I had always intended to leave spare key with the Twills next door but never got round to it.
▪ Some people take a fully charged spare battery along with them just in case!
▪ Soon she took my visits for granted and I was given the spare key to let myself in the door.
used cars/clothes etc
▪ Crackdown shows one third of used cars are not safe.
▪ However, with used cars, who knows?
▪ Leased a gravel lot for $ 15 a month and sold used cars.
▪ Now the tax on importing used cars has been slashed.
▪ The family also sticks to used cars.
working clothes
▪ As he approached them, Mungo could see that they wore blue uniform trousers under their working clothes.
▪ But she had to turn up at Maggie's school in her working clothes.
▪ In fact I felt rather a lout in my working clothes among the elegant gathering.
▪ Jonadab was not to be hurried and methodically finished changing into his working clothes before putting in an appearance.
▪ Still clad in her tattered working clothes, her wellingtons pumped away assiduously to give the instrument the breath it required.
▪ They went from the workplace into the canteen, they sat and opened their lunchboxes in their working clothes.
▪ They woke on Sunday morning and people wre going to church ... they daren't be seen in their working clothes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Dana always wears such nice clothes.
▪ I need to go buy some new clothes.
▪ It's hard to find clothes that fit me.
▪ My mother always made us wear our good clothes for travelling.
▪ Pete took his clothes off and went to bed.
▪ The temperature should be around freezing tonight - it's time to get the winter clothes out.
▪ There are lots of clothes shops on Newbury Street.
▪ You can pick up second-hand baby clothes very cheaply.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Furniture and appliances, maps and globes, paints and clothes.
▪ He hadn't wondered where her clothes were when he'd returned to Primrose Cottage at the end of that autumn term.
▪ I was given her clothes, which were too big and made the soldiers laugh.
▪ It showed a middle-aged man in the clothes of the late seventeenth-century.
▪ It was interesting to see everybody in their own clothes.
▪ Most of it was toys and clothes.
▪ The princess arrayed herself in her best clothes and jewels.
▪ We had to wash our own hair and mend our own clothes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clothes

Cloth \Cloth\ (kl[o^]th; 115), n.; pl. Cloths (kl[o^][th]z; 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.

Clothes

Clothes \Clothes\ (kl[=o][th]z or kl[=o]z; 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 ( Tinea 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clothes

Old English claðas "cloths, clothes," originally plural of clað "cloth" (see cloth), which, in 19c., after the sense of "article of clothing" had mostly faded from it, acquired a new plural form, cloths, to distinguish it from this word.

Wiktionary
clothes

Etymology 1 n. (context plural only English) Items of clothing; apparel. Etymology 2

vb. (en-third-person singular of: clothe)

WordNet
clothes

n. 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]

Wikipedia
Clothes (1920 film)

Clothes is a 1920 silent film produced and distributed by the Metro Pictures company. It is based on a 1906 Broadway play, Clothes, by Channing Pollock and Avery Hopwood. The play starred Grace George with a young supporting player named Douglas Fairbanks. A 1914 silent film was produced and is now lost. This 1920 version from Metro, starred Olive Tell. By all accounts this version is lost as well.

Usage examples of "clothes".

He was a big man, fatter even than Acta, and he wore strangely constraining clothes: a tightly sewn jacket and trousers, heavy leather shoes, a hat stuffed with straw.

Accompanied by both Franklin and Lee, Adams arrived at Versailles in all-new French clothes, his wig dressed, and wearing a dress sword, as required at the palace.

The dress was merely uninteresting, not unconventional in the striking way he liked loose clothes on the tall bodies of the Afrikaans state theatre actresses and art school lec turers who were the women he kept around him.

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The holy Mael felt a profound sadness that the first clothes put upon a daughter of Alca should have betrayed the penguin modesty instead of helping it.

The clothes were better, the food more exotic, the people more serious and aware of their own importance, but all in all the same dynamics applied: polite chitchat, polite laughter, the constant mingling.

The clothes were better, the food more exotic, the people more serious and aware of their own importance, but all in all the same dynamics applied, polite chitchat, polite laughter, the constant mingling.

Anyway, Freddy the Amishman gets all embarrassed at first, but then he plays it cool and takes off his clothes and climbs into the tub with the lady.

Now Andi complained loudly of being betrayed, wadding her clothes into a ball and throwing them against the wall in frustration.

For the next couple of days the little puppy was so very poorly that Andromeda was able to keep him bedded down in her clothes cupboard without much fear of detection.

She picked the clothes clean of all visible bugs, covered herself with antifungal powder until she looked like something that was ready for the deep fat fryer, and forced herself into the clammy outfit.

Billy Antrim hesitated only momentarily before parting with his clothes, his food supply and, above all, his knife and gun.

Some of the apices were dressed in male clothes, some in female dress.

There would be fresh clothes at Aquarius if he could get the others to go there with him.

The boy had changed his city clothes for plain garb and was sharing some joke with Arna and young Jalis.