Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Clothes
clothes, n. [OE; original plural of cloth.] (webplay: coats, raiment).
- Garments; coverings for the body; [fig.] leaves on a tree.
- Apparel; garb; raiment; [fig.] body; embodiment; incarnation; encasing for the spirit of a being.
- Rags; duds.
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