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cloathes

cloathes is the obsolete form of clothes.

Meaning of clothes

Noun

clothes pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Items of clothing; apparel.
    • suit of clothes.
    Synonyms:
    clothing
  2. (plural, plural-only) The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
    • She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove
  3. (plural, plural-only) Laundry (hung on a clothesline).

Questions about cloathes

What is cloathes the obsolete form of?
Cloathes is the obsolete form of clothes.

Words near cloathes in the dictionary

  1. cloaming
  2. cloams
  3. cloath
  4. cloathe
  5. cloathed
  6. cloathes
  7. cloathing
  8. cloathings
  9. cloaths
  10. CLOB
  11. clobazam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloathes (page history and authors); clothes (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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