(n.) A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.
(n.) The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes.
(n.) The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
(2) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
(3) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
(4) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
(5) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(6) Thirteen of the fourteen melanomas detected were on anatomic sites normally covered by clothing.
(7) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(8) A case-control study of 160 patients with cancers of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses and 290 controls showed an excess risk associated with employment in the textile or clothing industries, with the increase (relative risk [RR] = 2.1) found only among female workers.
(9) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(10) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(11) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
(12) Tesco uniforms can be bought through the supermarket's Clubcard Boost scheme, where £5 in Clubcard vouchers equals a £10 spend on clothing, while Asda is offering free delivery on uniform purchases of over £25.
(13) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
(14) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(15) Never had I heard anything about what I saw documented so unsparingly in Evan’s photographs: families sleeping in the streets, their clothes in shreds, straw hats torn and unprotecting of the sun, guajiros looking for work on the doorsteps of Havana’s indifferent mansions.
(16) So Mick Jagger still wears clothes that he wore when he was 20 – quite possibly the exact same clothes – and the man looks great, because that's who he is.
(17) The matter of clothing is closely related to another of Wimbledon’s quiet triumphs: the almost total lack of corporate graffiti in the form of logos and advertising.
(18) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(19) On the regulatory side, Carney's role as chair of the Financial Stability Board suggests an individual cut from relatively orthodox cloth while working at the coal face of implementation on a range of issues.
(20) You couldn’t walk into the ward in your own clothes.
Duster
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
(n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
(n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
(n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(2) As a visual stimulus, a feather duster moving for 2 min in front of the cats eyes was used.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A duster coat from Monki.
(4) Well, it appears that acting like a cock has finally rendered Morgan the feather duster.
(5) The patient was a crop duster with numerous episodes of acute organophosphate intoxication and chronic organophosphate exposure.
(6) Last year, DKNY launched a Ramadan collection – a full range, featuring duster coats, leather jackets and silk jogging bottoms – while, next month, Armani will release a box of Ramadan chocolates.
(7) Look at him, dumbly stuffing six on to each hand like a useless Swiss knuckle-duster.
(8) The visual stimulus was a feather duster which was moved for 4-5 min in front of the cats eyes.
(9) Was there ever any danger that it would quit a cosy jurisdiction with feather-duster regulation and prosecutions as rare as hen’s teeth?
(10) It reminded me of the field in North by Northwest, where Cary Grant is strafed by a crop duster.
(11) You will need: Wax filler stick Coloured wood stain White spirit Beeswax Duster or soft cloth Fine brush 1) If you have a fairly deep scratch on a flat surface such as a table top, wax works best.
(12) Apply beeswax lightly to the scratch and the surrounding area and buff with a duster.
(13) A man walks down the street wearing a dark fedora at a jaunty angle and chatting into a mobile phone; young men lounge by a wall, like young men everywhere, all high-fives and exaggerated gestures, except that one carries an AK-47; children stand ranged like bottles on a crumbling wall as a kite soars above; donkeys with pretty pink flowers fastened to the ropes around their noses pull carts; minibuses sporting feather dusters in their bonnets groan under the weight of too many passengers and too many bags; a boy in a blue T-shirt raises two fingers to his head in salute and smiles.
(14) Colombia says rise in coca cultivation shows why it was right to stop spraying Read more The defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said instead of dumping glyphosate from American-piloted crop dusters , as Colombia did for two decades, the herbicide will now be applied manually by eradication crews on the ground.
(15) "O ne day you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster" reads Piers Morgan's bio on Twitter .
(16) But others insist the EPBC Act, introduced by John Howard’s government, is robust legislation that can either be a heavy stick or a feather duster, depending on its application.
(17) But we don't get the chance because he's off again, brushing aside the camera crew and actioning change with a stately swipe of his feather duster ("Eurk … don't like this table … nyarrph").
(18) Permethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, applied on two plots with a pressurized hand-held duster at mean rates of 2.3 and 4.0 g per burrow, was used to determine control levels for Oropsylla hirsuta fleas, a vector of bubonic plague, in black-tail prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, burrows in northern Colorado during the summer of 1988.
(19) He remembers as a child when crop dusters repeatedly used herbicide to destroy his father’s crops near the town of Tibú – and how his father would replant them.
(20) Long tunics, thin long duster coats and dresses over trousers are all the rage in bargain high-street shops such as New Look and Monki.