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Clothing   /klˈoʊðɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Clothe  v. t.  (past & past part. clothed or clad; pres. part. clothing)  
1.
To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. "Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you."
2.
To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. "Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." "The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes."
3.
Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power. "Language in which they can clothe their thoughts." "His sides are clothed with waving wood." "Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb."


Clothe  v. i.  (past & past part. clothed or clad; pres. part. clothing)  To wear clothes. (Poetic) "Care no more to clothe eat."


noun
Clothing  n.  
1.
Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. "From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing." "As for me,... my clothing was sackloth."
2.
The art of process of making cloth. (R.) "Instructing (refugees) in the art of clothing."
3.
A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.
4.
(Mach.) See Card clothing, under 3d Card.





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"Clothing" Quotes from Famous Books



... measured for a complete outfit of holeproof clothing, and his motor will be a Ford of seventeen thicknesses, with armoured steel windows, and fitted with first-aid accessories, including liniment, restoratives and raw steak. His entourage will include a day doctor, ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 7th, 1920 • Various
... faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into every furrow of age and coming up afresh, was the sigh, Hunger. It was prevalent everywhere. Hunger was pushed out of the tall houses, in the wretched clothing that hung upon poles and lines; Hunger was patched into them with straw and rag and wood and paper; Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off; Hunger stared down from the smokeless chimneys, and started up from the filthy street that had no offal, ...
— A Tale of Two Cities - A Story of the French Revolution • Charles Dickens
... rose, folding the telegraph blank, and returned to the bedroom, taking up his hat and the murderous cane as he went. Here he gathered together all the articles of clothing that he had discarded, conveying the mass to the trunk-room, where an empty and ...
— The Brass Bowl • Louis Joseph Vance
... sitting cross-legged on a low divan, his hands crossed in front of him and hanging limply between his knees. His clothing I could see but vaguely, for it was merged into the darkness about him, but his hands stood out white against it. He was staring straight at the crystal, with unwavering and unwinking gaze, and sat as motionless ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson
... sticking in it. She had been resting her head upon her hand and her elbow on the table when Nan came in. But she spoke in her usual bright way to the girl as the latter first of all kissed her and then put away her books and outer clothing. ...
— Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, The Old Lumberman's Secret • Annie Roe Carr


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