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  • noun Plural form of cloath.

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Examples

  • His first aim is to adorn his own person with what he calls fine cloaths, that is the frippery of the fashion.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • I write to them both by this days post. my cloaths are arrived.

    Letter 109 1794

  • Growing Trees also, and any kinds of Woods, Stones, Bones, &c. that have been long expos'd to the Air and Rain, will be all over cover'd with a greenish scurff, which will very much foul and green any kind of cloaths that are rubb'd against it; viewing this, I could not certainly perceive in many parts of it any determinate form, though in many I could perceive a

    Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

  • "cloaths" to a London tailor, who evidently had no exact measurement, as Washington wrote in 1763:

    My beloved South, Mrs. T. P. O 1914

  • The triumphant Indians reached the Forks on the night of July 9, “with many horses loaded with spoils of the English consisting of furniture horse furnishings, cloaths, utensils, gold, silver &c.,” according to a Canadian who saw them come in.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Orme said the “officers used all possible endeavours to stop the men,” many of whom “threw away their arms and ammunition, and even their cloaths, to escape the faster.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • The triumphant Indians reached the Forks on the night of July 9, “with many horses loaded with spoils of the English consisting of furniture horse furnishings, cloaths, utensils, gold, silver &c.,” according to a Canadian who saw them come in.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • The triumphant Indians reached the Forks on the night of July 9, “with many horses loaded with spoils of the English consisting of furniture horse furnishings, cloaths, utensils, gold, silver &c.,” according to a Canadian who saw them come in.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Orme said the “officers used all possible endeavours to stop the men,” many of whom “threw away their arms and ammunition, and even their cloaths, to escape the faster.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Barnham Water has set my brains a-gadding, and I fear I shall not get rid of the subject untill I have given it a suit of cloaths.

    Letter 96 2009

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