clothing

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English

Etymology

From Middle English clothing, clathing; equivalent to clothe +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, cleading (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”), Danish klædning (“clothing, dress, attire”), Swedish klädning (“dress”). Doublet of the dialectal English term cleading, from Middle English clething; compare also cladding.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkləʊðɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -əʊðɪŋ
• Hyphenation: cloth‧ing

Verb

clothing

1. present participle and gerund of clothe

Noun

clothing (countable and uncountable, plural clothings)

2. Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion.
3. An act or instance of putting clothes on.

4. (obsolete) The art or process of making cloth.
5. A covering of non-conducting material on the outside of a boiler, or steam chamber, to prevent radiation of heat.

Synonyms

• clothes, attire, apparel

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:clothing

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• vestiary, sartorial

See also

References

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clathing, clothyng, clothynge, clathynge, cloþing, cloþinge, cloþingue, claþing, claþinng, cloþyng, claȝing

Etymology

From clothen +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Early Middle English, Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈklɑːðinɡ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈklɔːðinɡ/

Noun

clothing (plural clothinges)

1. What one wears; clothing, outfit, garments.
   1. A piece of clothes; an individual component of an outfit.
   2. The uniform or outfit associated with an occupation or position.
   3. (figurative) One's religious values and priorities.
   4. (figurative, rare) One's appearance or countenance.
2. Linen or sheets used as a cover or a protective layer.
3. The equipping or provision of garments.

Descendants

• English: clothing

References

• “clōthing, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-27.