Noun: clothes
Sample Sentences
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suit of clothes.
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Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
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She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes. [1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove:]
Nouns inflected like clothes
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English clothes, cloþes (plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”)), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”, plural of clāþ (“cloth”)), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Dutch klederen, kleren (“clothes”), German Kleider (“clothes”), Danish klæder (“clothes”), Swedish kläder (“clothes”), Norwegian Bokmål klær (“clothes”), Norwegian Nynorsk klede (“clothes”), Faroese klæði, klæðir (“clothes”). See: Old English Nouns '
clāþas', Swedish Nouns '
kläder', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
klær', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
klede', Faroese Nouns '
klæði'.