(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.
Swaddle
Definition:
(n.) Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.
(v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.
(v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many are swaddled in grey UNHCR blankets, which are discarded by the side of the road either because they are wet and heavy, or because the refugees are not aware that they will spend many more hours in the open air.
(2) This "swaddling clothes test" has made it possible to establish, for the first time, the microbiological characteristics indicating the degree of epidemic well-being in obstetric institutions.
(3) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
(4) There is a group in the foreground of pale-skinned people who in some ways represent the flight into Egypt – a woman with a swaddled baby, a bearded Joseph figure, a sinister child with a bow and arrow, and an even more sinister child battling a nasty goat next to a spilled water vessel.
(5) Some current investigators have noted that the inhibition of movement by swaddling seems to quiet irritable babies and this might be a useful nursing intervention.
(6) Swaddling is an ancient practice which has been used for many reasons in almost every country in the world.
(7) High levels of insulation for a given room temperature were found particularly at night and in winter, and were associated with the use of thick or doubled duvets and with swaddling.
(8) Let your kid roll around in the dirt, get a pet – don’t swaddle them in a sterile cloth.
(9) The review finds no evidence for the benefits of acupuncture, chiropractic care, or for massage or swaddling for comfort.
(10) Effective strategies to care for these infants included recognizing states and cues, swaddling, use of pacifier, waking to eat, and smaller feedings.
(11) Erla, 37, a lawyer, swaddled in a thick, red mac, says that as an Icelandic woman you can always count on the support of your sisters, and it was in this spirit she attended the Women Strike Back march last year, a protest against the pay gap and sexual violence.
(12) In Turkey and China the ancient practice of swaddling is still commonly practiced.
(13) Speaking in Germany last week, Neil MacGregor described his compatriots’ habit of swaddling themselves in their past as if it were a blanket.
(14) At 2 weeks, infants' HR levels and crying declined significantly more rapidly in the pacifier than in the swaddling condition.
(15) Nearby, a young mother sits on the cold, damp pavement with her tiny infant swaddled in a blanket, begging from passersby.
(16) The "swaddling ethos" is posited to serve as a homeostat whose regulatory function can be discerned through the analysis of family structure and process, in particular through the explication of values, affective patterns, roles, boundaries, and structural units within the family.
(17) During the next four days of the same months, the same infants were monitored with no swaddling.
(18) Due to the open nature of the event, it was also about people who weren’t sure why Reed's dark lyrics were echoing through a manicured plaza, just outside New York City's performing arts library: I'm bigger, smarter, stronger, tough Yet sensitive and kind And though I could crush you like a bug It will never cross my mind The crowd was littered with people swaddled in down jackets to brace from the cold and far more people wore leather jackets than appropriate for the chilly temperature.
(19) No clear long-term effects of swaddling have been demonstrated.
(20) Might it be safest, if the Wass experiment goes ahead, to pick a lightweight Windsor, such as the hawker of endorsements Zara Phillips or the less worrying of the two Fergie daughters, then swaddle the royal inside a light casing of removable padding that could be adjusted in case of weight gain?