Clothes vs Clothings - What's the difference?
clothes | clothings |
(plural only) Items of clothing; apparel.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (obsolete) .
The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
* Prior
* 1758 , Jonas Hanway, Three Letters on the Subject of the Marine Society (page 44)
* 1993 , Elizabeth Rapley, The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-century France
As nouns the difference between clothes and clothings
is that clothes is items of clothing; apparel while clothings is plural of lang=en.As a verb clothes
is third-person singular of clothe.clothes
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(head)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
- She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes .
Derived terms
(terms derived from "clothes") * bedclothes * clotheshorse * clothesline * clothes moth * clothes-peg * clothes peg * clothespin * clotehspress * swaddling clothes * swathing clothesSee also
* clothing * gear * threadsEtymology 2
clothings
English
Noun
(head)- You are hereby desired to receive into your care, the trusses of clothings and beddings which we shall send you from time to time
- Among these were two principal records: registers of clothings , and registers of professions.