Clothing
[kloh-th ing] /ˈkloʊ ðɪŋ/
noun
1.
garments collectively; ; raiment; apparel.
2.
a covering.
[klohth] /kloʊð/
verb (used with object), clothed or clad, clothing.
1.
to dress; attire.
2.
to provide with .
3.
to cover with or as with .
/ˈkləʊðɪŋ/
noun
1.
garments collectively
2.
something that covers or clothes
/kləʊð/
verb (transitive) clothes, clothing, clothed, clad
1.
to dress or attire (a person)
2.
to provide with clothing or covering
3.
to conceal or disguise
4.
to endow or invest
n.
c.1200, “action of dressing in clothes,” verbal noun from clothe. From late 13c. as “clothes collectively;” 1590s as an adjective.
v.
Old English claðian, from claþ (see cloth). Related: Clothed, clothing. Other Old English words for this were scrydan and gewædian.
see: wolf in sheep’s clothing
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