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claes

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Northern England/kleːz/

claes noun: clothes.

Noun

claes pl (plural only)

  1. (Scotland, plural, plural-only) clothes

Origin of claes

Variant of clathes, from Middle English clathes, from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”). More at clothes.

Questions about claes

What does claes mean?
Claes means clothes.
What part of speech is claes?
Claes is a noun.
How do you pronounce claes?
Claes is pronounced /kleːz/ (Northern England).

Words near claes in the dictionary

  1. cladoxyls
  2. cladribine
  3. clads
  4. cladus
  5. Clady
  6. claes
  7. CLAF
  8. Claffey
  9. Claffeys
  10. claffichord
  11. claffichords

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