Clothes vs Plainclothes - What's the difference?
clothes | plainclothes |
(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
(usually, of a police officer) Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.
Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.
As nouns the difference between clothes and plainclothes
is that clothes is (plural only) items of clothing; apparel while plainclothes is ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.As a verb clothes
is (clothe).As an adjective plainclothes is
(usually|of a police officer) wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.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 .
