(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.
Purdah
Definition:
(n.) A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was a courageous move in a society where women were confined to purdah.
(2) Vote Leave reacted angrily to the findings, which it said were part of a plan by the government “to circumvent purdah rules by using the IMF, which is funded by the EU and the UK government”.
(3) Plasma calcium, phosphate, and serum 25 OHD concentrations were lower in practising women and their newborns than those not practising purdah and their infants, respectively.
(4) He told the Observer : “I have been cautiously optimistic from the start, but having gone through the last three weeks, and the purdah period, there is a slightly different mood around.
(5) Some senior officers are relieved that this enforced purdah will maintain their distance from the political process, but others feel powerless and frustrated as they watch an election process that they fear could undermine trust in the police.
(6) Either way, the lucky candidate, who has first to past the Normington test (of which more in a moment) has a tenure of eight and a bit months – actually less because Whitehall will be winding down to pre-election purdah by the end of March next year.
(7) But this view was not supported by Shafik, Forbes or Miles, who made their views public before the Bank goes into “purdah” later this week for the duration of the election campaign.
(8) Local government has been quick to jump in and offer advice and support to colleagues in central government, with Graeme McDonald, head of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (Solace), making a very fair offer: Tweet by Graeme McDonald, head of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives Some senior civil servants have sprung out of purdah with relish.
(9) A second source close to the talks said that even if a sale was agreed before the Scottish government went into purdah, it might not mean that all of the workforce was rehired immediately.
(10) James Slack, May’s new official spokesman and former Daily Mail political editor, is a trusted member of the communications team but has no role in the election because he is bound by civil service rules on purdah.
(11) Morgan either has to decide by the end of the month when pre-election “purdah” prevents the government from making new or controversial announcements or hold off until after 7 May.
(12) Is it possible for a civil servant to unknowingly submit a controversial project for ministerial sign-off and for the minister to approve something he or she should not under purdah rules?
(13) The social system of purdah which restricts extrafamilial activities places workers in conflict with established social and cultural norms.
(14) This would mean that the "purdah" rules, which restrict government announcements during an election campaign, would apply while negotiations took place to form a new administration.
(15) The status of women, and their families in turn, has traditionally relied on the keeping of purdah (i.e., the veil and the strict seclusion of women from the world of men), complete sexual division of labor, and relative freedom from menial work.
(16) So the likelihood is very low.” Another area purdah restrictions affect is departments’ written correspondence with MPs.
(17) If you work for the UK government or a local authority you have probably come across the term purdah.
(18) Paul Maltby, director of data projects at the Department for Communities and Local Government, was back on Twitter, regretting the time he’d missed on social media: Tweet by Paul Maltby, director of data at the Government Digital Service By the end of the day, Maltby was clearly happy to be back in the fray: Tweet by Paul Maltby But purdah isn’t just about public servants being careful about what they say.
(19) Some local government officers and civil servants are already in purdah because of the local elections and mayoral elections taking place on 4 May.
(20) While the everyday business of central and local government continues in the run-up to the elections, all staff must be scrupulous in the purdah period to ensure that public resources are not used for party political purposes and must not undertake any activity that could call into question their political impartiality.