(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.
Sarong
Definition:
(n.) A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Fouad removed the white piece of cloth, we were outside a small compound surrounded by heavily armed men, some in local sarongs, others in shalwar kameez.
(2) We were always paying bribes,” Hussein said, wearing the traditional Burmese longi , a type of sarong.
(3) Dressed in white shirts over their green sarongs, dozens of young men poured down the concrete step of the army barracks and across the compound.
(4) He would later claim that he lost the job because his only sarong was accidentally torn and he could not afford to replace it.
(5) And wearing a sarong, as footballers generally don’t.
(6) Just 30 years ago, Samarinda was a sleepy village surrounded by deep equatorial forest and known mostly for its traditionally woven sarongs.
(7) Booths have been erected in schools and monasteries and long queues of people hoping to avoid the heat arrived early and patiently waited, many wearing traditional “longyi” sarongs and some holding children.
(8) Her roster of artists includes Htein Lin , a former political prisoner who in six years behind bars created 200 works on white cotton longyis , the Burmese sarongs that were prison uniform.
(9) A few cargo ships gingerly waited in the harbour, the markets were crowded and in the dusk hours the wet sands of the Arabian sea glittered with the reflections of women in black abayas and fathers in sarongs paddling with their children.
(10) He graduated from high school in 1939, working briefly in a village bank, and would later claim he lost the job because his only sarong was accidentally torn and he could not afford to replace it.
(11) With his sarong, his floppy hair and his pop star girlfriend, the boy Beckham had always been as much an enemy of "English" football as its hero .
(12) Some units wore khaki trousers and white T-shirts while others had just a few military garments, casting a jacket over a sarong.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ellen Phiri, 23, maternity bag contents: torch, black plastic sheet, razor blade, string, 200 Malawian kwacha note and three large sarongs.
(14) Forget the sarong and the experiments with pink nail varnish.
(15) Tall with a concave chest and pencil-thin moustache, he wore a threadbare sarong with a new, elegant heavy-wool jacket in the midday heat.
(16) The main physical threat is from developers who want to change the unique facades of the old town houses, but earnest and determined Tharanga is also charged with making sure the fort doesn’t become an open museum that only rich tourists can afford to stay and shop in – there are already six boutique hotels, a growing number of upmarket shops selling $40 sarongs and luxury beauty products and restaurants offering cocktails and sushi.
(17) But there is one thing that even now no man feels comfortable doing … one boundary that, even in his sarong-and-nail-varnish-wearing pomp, David Beckham never dared to over-step … one convention that no shock-rocker has ever had the courage to defy.
(18) Hundreds of men, young and old, tribesmen in short sarongs and others of African decent stood in rows.
(19) A boy in a yellow sarong runs into the water, towards fishing boats bobbing serenely in the Indian Ocean.